Statistics slam dunk statistical analysis with R on real NBA data
Learn statistics by analyzing professional basketball data! In this action-packed book, you'll build your skills in exploratory data analysis by digging into the fascinating world of NBA games and player stats using the R language. Statistics Slam Dunk is an engaging how-to guide for statistica...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Shelter Island, NY
Manning Publications
2024
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| Edition: | [First edition] |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Learn statistics by analyzing professional basketball data! In this action-packed book, you'll build your skills in exploratory data analysis by digging into the fascinating world of NBA games and player stats using the R language. Statistics Slam Dunk is an engaging how-to guide for statistical analysis with R. Each chapter contains an end-to-end data science or statistics project delving into NBA data and revealing real-world sporting insights. Written by a former basketball player turned business intelligence and analytics leader, you'll get practical experience tidying, wrangling, exploring, testing, modeling, and otherwise analyzing data with the best and latest R packages and functions. Is losing basketball games on purpose a rational strategy? Which hustle statistics have an impact on wins and losses? Does spending more on player salaries translate into a winning record? You'll answer all these questions and more. Plus, R's visualization capabilities shine through in the book's 300 plots and charts, including Pareto charts, Sankey diagrams, Cleveland dot plots, and dendrograms |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | 672 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781638355809 9781633438682 1633438686 |