"Hot hand" on strike: Bowling data indicates correlation to recent past results, not causality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yaari, Gur ^a   David, Gil ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BOWLING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOT HAND PHENOMENON; HUMAN; PREDICTION; SPORTS AND SPORT RELATED PHENOMENA; SPORTS ORGANIZATION; SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPORT; STATISTICS;

CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPORTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84855800954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030112     Document Type: Article

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