STAT 4610X - Sports Analytics
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Course Description: Sports analytics refers to the use of statistical, quantitative, and graphical techniques for analysis of sports data. Focus on head-to-head sports and the calculation of relevant statistics, e.g., plus-minus and adjusted plus-minus statistics that attempt to quantify individual contributions to a team’s performance. Rating and ranking systems and their relationship to statistical models and estimation of these ratings will be described.
Course content can be found on the course website.
Jarad Niemi
Professor of Statistics, Professor in Charge of Data Science
My research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter.