Jim Albert
Autor(a) de Curve Ball : Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
About the Author
Jim Albert is Professor of Statistics at Bowling Green State University. He is Fellow of the American Statistical Association and is past editor of The American Statistician. His books include Ordinal Data Modeling (with Valen Johnson), Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, A Bayesian Approach mostrar mais (with Allan Rossman), and Bayesian Computation using Minitab. mostrar menos
Obras de Jim Albert
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Albert, Jim
- Outros nomes
- Albert, James
Albert, James H. - Data de nascimento
- 1953-11-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Purdue University
Bucknell University - Ocupação
- mathematician
statistician - Organizações
- Bowling Green State University
American Statistical Association
Mathematical Association of America
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 234
- Popularidade
- #96,591
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 35
Curve Ball is a look at sabermetrics by a pair of professional statisticians. It begins by discussing how statisticians view numbers and analysis, then moves to baseball's. The authors are apparently familiar with every important sabermetrician, including the commonly-cited sabermetric predecessors, and with many (perhaps all) professional statisticians who study baseball. Some of the book's chapters are overviews, while others examine specific topics.
The chapters I found most interesting were a series about modeling baseball offenses. On the whole, these guys give the leading sabermetricians good marks; in particular, Bill James' Runs Created and Pete Palmer's Linear Weights are given high accolades.
The book's enjoyable if you've some background in academic statistics, but it's likely difficult reading if you've not encountered that notation and vocabulary. I worked my way through the discussions, but was rummaging through four-decade-old memories from time to time. It's certainly an essential book if you're seriously interested in serious baseball analysis.
This review has also been published on a dabbler's journal. … (mais)