March Madness “Anomalies”: Are They Real, and If So, Can They Be Explained?

DOI10.1080/00031305.2020.1720814MaRDI QIDQ5056969zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dale L. Zimmerman, Nathan D. Zimmerman, Joshua T. Zimmerman

Publication date 14 December 2022

Published in The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2020.1720814

zbMATH Keywords

order-restricted hypothesesoutlier analysissports statisticsteam strength modeltournament design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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• A unified approach to testing for and against a set of linear inequality constraints in the product multinomial setting
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• Using Conformal Win Probability to Predict the Winners of the Canceled 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournaments

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• R

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