Abstract #302314

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JSM 2003 Abstract #302314
Activity Number: 51
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 3, 2003 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Sports
Abstract - #302314
Title: Temporal Percentile Plots--A Graphical Tool for Discerning Changes in Distributions over Time
Author(s): James J. Cochran*+
Companies: Louisiana Tech University
Address: CAB, Dept. of Economic Finance, Ruston, LA, 71272-0046,
Keywords: graphical display ; percentiles ; probability distributions ; baseball
Abstract:

We present a graphical method for distinguishing temporal shifts in a probability distribution. Examples from Major League Baseball covering the entire 20th century are used to demonstrate the usefulness of this type of display.

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