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Category: Teaching Math With Sports

Posted onSeptember 29, 2023September 29, 2023Mathematics

What is Data Leakage in Machine Learning?

by jdashbrock

Nearly every data scientist or sports analyst has learned a painful first-hand lesson about data leakage. Let me paint a picture. You come up with…

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Posted onSeptember 24, 2023September 24, 2023Mathematics

Page Rank Sports Ranking System and graph theory in Sports

by jdashbrock

Development of a page rank sports ranking system is not a new idea. In fact, it gets to the heart of a central question in…

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Posted onApril 2, 2023April 2, 2023Mathematics

Sklearn Linear Regression Tutorial for Sports

by jdashbrock

Linear regression is the first, easiest, and most versatile tool that statisticians and data scientists will learn. The Sklearn linear regression python class provides the…

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Posted onMarch 13, 2023March 13, 2023Betting

Sklearn Logistic Regression Example in Sports

by jdashbrock

Python has become the tool of choice for nearly every budding data scientist. Sklearn, including the Sklearn logistic regression module, is one of the most…

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Posted onNovember 16, 2022November 16, 2022Teaching Math With Sports

Teaching Permutations and Combinations with Sports

by jdashbrock

In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at applications of permutations and combinations in sports. Permutations and combinations are two of the…

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Posted onOctober 26, 2022October 26, 2022Teaching Math With Sports

Teaching the Exponential Distribution with sports

by jdashbrock

In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at applications of the exponential distribution in sports. The exponential distribution is very closely related…

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Posted onOctober 2, 2022October 2, 2022Teaching Math With Sports

Teaching Hypothesis Tests for Means and Proportions with Sports

by jdashbrock

In this edition of Teaching Math With Sports we look at hypothesis tests. In particular, we explore a few examples of hypothesis testing for means…

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Posted onSeptember 30, 2022October 2, 2022Teaching Math With Sports

Teaching Critical Points and Fermat’s Theorem with Sports

by jdashbrock

In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at applications of critical points and Fermat’s Theorem in sports. Throughout a Calculus course, most…

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Posted onSeptember 24, 2022October 2, 2022Teaching Math With Sports

Teaching the Poisson Distribution with Sports

by jdashbrock2 Comments on Teaching the Poisson Distribution with Sports

In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at the Poisson distribution in sports. The Poisson distribution is a fundamental distribution in statistics…

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Posted onSeptember 20, 2022October 2, 2022Teaching Math With Sports

Teaching the Binomial Distribution with Sports

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In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at the binomial distribution. The binomial distribution is one of the simplest yet most ubiquitous…

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