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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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519
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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IMS
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| Abstract - #308226 |
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Title:
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Empirical Bayes In-Season Prediction of Baseball Batting Averages
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Author(s):
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Wenhua Jiang*+ and Cun-Hui Zhang
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Companies:
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Rutgers University
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Address:
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2 Rockledge Centre, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20852,
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Keywords:
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empirical Bayes ;
partial linear model ;
nonparametric estimation ;
semiparametric estimation ;
hitting ;
batting average
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Abstract:
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The performance of a number of empirical Bayes methods are examined for the in-season prediction of batting averages with the 2005 Major League baseball data. Among the methodologies considered are new general empirical Bayes estimators in homoscedastic and heteroscedastic partial linear models.
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