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Mathematicians Explain Sports: Baseball

June 28, 2017Original blog post

Baseball: spend a year sampling until n = 162, because the distributions are so similar you need a large n.

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Baseball: "Then you spend a year taking samples until n = 162." "I see. Because the underlying distributions are so similar that you need large n?" "Yeah. Plus you're mostly just standing around anyway."

Topics
Applied Math › Math in SportsStatistics › Sample Size
Level
High SchoolCalculusCollege
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