Predicting wins and losses: a volleyball case study

DOI10.4169/COLLEGE.MATH.J.46.5.352MaRDI QIDQ4581535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elizabeth Knapper, Hope McIlwain

Publication date 20 August 2018

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4169/college.math.j.46.5.352

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) Descriptive statistics (educational aspects) (97K40) Education of mathematical modeling and applications of mathematics (97M99)

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