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Statistical Analysis of the Statistical Material of a Basketball Tournament

From International Statistical Institute (ISI)
By Beata Pluta and Wiesaw Wagner
Download source here: ' Statistical Analysis of the Basketball Tournament Sydney’ 2000 ' by Beata Pluta and Wiesaw Wagner

"... The statistical analysis of the statistical material of the basketball matches was performed considering the analysis of both groups, between groups and sports achievements of the basketball teams competing in the tournament. Besides formal statistical methods relating to the description of the sample also statistical inference was used with the application of F-Fisher’s and t-Student’s test and analysis of variance. ... "

"... Basketball games in groups were played using “everyone with everyone” system. Together, in each group took place 15 games, so in the qualifying round me = 2 × 15 = 30 matches were played. The fragment of prepered data base for the leading team USA is given in table 1. ..."

"... The statistical analysis in the elimination round is realized in three variants: a) analisis of game results in group A, b) analisis of game results in group B, and c) comparison of results between groups A and B. ..."

"... A useful method of presentation of multi-stage activities in a developed form is a graph. For the purpose of the description of the states of transition in the number of won matche s graphs called trees can be used. On the edges of the graph there are names of countries which played for positions 1-4. On the path from knot 0 to the final knot 8 there is only USA team which means the team won all its matches. Each set of knots expresses a number of won games in which levels 1 to 5 express matches of the qualification round, and levels 6-8 knockout gamesecond in the tournament, is interesting. ..."

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