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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822073203321

Autore

Cramer Richard D. <1942->

Titolo

When big data was small : my life in baseball analytics and drug design / / Richard D. Cramer ; foreword by John Thorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4962-1576-1

1-4962-1578-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages)

Disciplina

796.357

Soggetti

Baseball - Statistical methods

Baseball - Mathematical models

Baseball players - Drug use - United States

Baseball statisticians - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the stage -- Baseball and science surface -- College -- Graduate school and the 1960s computer -- Industrial synthetic chemist -- Harvard's research computer -- Computer-aided drug discovery -- Sabermetrics' infancy -- Scientific recognition -- Twists of fate -- Birth of stats inc -- White Sox and Yankees -- Scientific career transition -- Rebirth of stats inc -- Comparative molecular field analysis -- Stats soars -- Cheerlessness and Lyme disease -- The rise and fall of TRPS -- Repudiated by stats -- Tidying up -- In my humble opinion -- Summing up.