Comments on: Likelihood of Recent Winning Streaks

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:48:23 +0000

I don't think you can. But theoretically, playing Marcus Thornton, Willie Green, & Jason Smith so much could have made it a close game again (and in fact, San Antonio outscored them 30-23 in the 4th).

By: DSMok1

DSMok1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:43:58 +0000

Notes on the distribution of minutes in that NO-SAS game: of course, the reason West and Paul played so little is that they were way ahead. The distribution would have been different had the game been closer.

I'm not sure how to account for that.

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:37:33 +0000

Nice. That one definitely couldn't wait until September 19.

By: Gil Meriken

Gil Meriken — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:34:00 +0000

Q:What do pirates use for statistical computing?

A: ARRRRRR

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:27:36 +0000

I use R, which is free and (for my purposes) can do pretty much anything a high-priced package does.

http://www.r-project.org/

By: Nathan Walker

Nathan Walker — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:21:55 +0000

Neil,

This is very interesting stuff! What software do you use to make logistic regression?

-Nathan