In-season prediction of batting averages: a field test of empirical Bayes and Bayes methodol\-ogies

DOI10.1214/07-AOAS138suppzbMath1137.62419arXiv0803.3697MaRDI QIDQ2482971

Lawrence D. Brown

Publication date: 30 April 2008

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3697

zbMATH Keywords

empirical Bayes; hierarchical Bayes; sports; FDR; variance stabilization; harmonic prior; hitting streaks; hot-hand

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F15: Bayesian inference

62P99: Applications of statistics

62C12: Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures

62G99: Nonparametric inference

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