Statistical modelling and sports business analytics:

"This book introduces predictive analytics in sports and discusses the relationship between analytics and algorithms and statistics. It defines sports data to be used and explains why the unique nature of sports would make analytics useful. The book also explains why the proper use of predictiv...

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Other Authors: Ratten, Vanessa (Editor), Hayduk, Ted (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Series:Routledge frontiers of business management
Routledge frontiers of business management
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This book introduces predictive analytics in sports and discusses the relationship between analytics and algorithms and statistics. It defines sports data to be used and explains why the unique nature of sports would make analytics useful. The book also explains why the proper use of predictive analytics includes knowing what they are incapable of doing and as well as the role of predictive analytics in the bigger picture of sports entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. The book looks at the mathematical foundations that enhance technical knowledge of predictive models, and illustrates through practical, insightful cases that will help to empower readers to build and deploy their own analytic methodologies. This book targets readers who already have working knowledge of location, dispersion, and distribution statistics, bivariate relationships (scatter plots and correlation coefficients), and statistical significance testing and is a reliable, well-rounded reference for furthering their knowledge of predictive analytics in sports"--
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 175 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780367854454
0367854457
9781000072136
1000072134
9781000072112
1000072118
9781000072150
1000072150

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