Statistical sleuthing by leveraging human nature: A study of olympic figure skating

American Statistician

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 143-148

  Emerson, John W ^a   Arnold, Taylor B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete distribution; Goodness of fit; Hypothesis test; Kolmogorov smirnov test

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054757216     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2011.10165     Document Type: Article

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