Robert William Maclagan Wedderburn 1947&ndash 1975 was a Scotland Scottish statistician who worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station . He was co developer, with John Nelder , of the generalized linear model methodology, ref cite journal last Nelder first John A authorlink John Nelder coauthors Wedderburn, Robert W title Generalized linear models journal Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A year 1972 volume 135 pages 370 384 doi 10.2307 2344614 issue 3 publisher Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A General , Vol. 135, No. 3 jstor 2344614 ref and then expanded this subject to develop the idea of quasi likelihood . ref cite journal first RWM last Wedderburn title Quasi likelihood functions, generalized linear models, and the Gauss Newton method journal Biometrika year 1974 volume 61 issue 3 pages 439 447 doi 10.1093 biomet 61.3.439 ref Wedderburn was born in Edinburgh , where he attended Fettes College , then studied for a degree and a diploma in statistics at the University of Cambridge . ref name obit He died aged 28 of anaphylactic shock from an Insect bites and stings insect bite while on a canal holiday. ref cite journal last Senn first Stephen year 2003 title A conversation with John Nelder journal Statistical Science volume 18 issue 1 pages 118 131 doi 10.1214 ss 1056397489 url http projecteuclid.org euclid.ss 1056397489 ref His colleagues remember him as someone of engaging diffidence, who would nonetheless hold his own in argument when he was sure he was right as he usually was . &mdash John Nelder ref name obit John Nelder Nelder, John 1975 . http www.jstor.org stable 2345239 Obituary Robert William Maclagan Wedderburn, 1947 1975. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society . Series A General Vol. 138, No. 4 , p. 587 ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wedderburn, Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Scottish statistician DATE OF BIRTH 1947 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1975 PLACE OF DEATH ... more details
Infobox scientist image image size 150px name Michael Healy birth date 26 November 1923 birth place Paignton , Devon death date death place residence United Kingdom citizenship United Kingdom ethnicity field Statistician work institutions Rothamsted Experimental Station br Medical Research Council UK MRC Clinical Research Centre br London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge doctoral advisor doctoral students known for author abbrev bot author abbrev zoo influences influenced prizes Guy Medal in Gold footnotes signature Michael John Romer Healy born 1923 is a United Kingdom British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing , auxology , laboratory statistics and quality control , and methods for analysing longitudinal data , among other areas. ref cite journal first James Mourilyan last Tanner authorlink James Mourilyan Tanner title Foreword to special issue in honour of Professor Michael Healy, on the occasion of his 75th birthday journal Statistics in Medicine volume 17 pages 2655 2659 year 1998 doi 10.1002 SICI 1097 0258 19981215 17 23 2655 AID SIM32 3.0.CO 2 D pmid 10094668 issue 23 ref He was professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1977 until his retirement. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Silver in 1979 and Gold in 1999, and he also acted as chairman of its medical section. ref cite journal author Healy, M.J.R. year 1978 title Is Statistics a Science? journal Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A General volume 141 issue 3 pages 385 393 doi 10.2307 2344809 jstor 2344809 ref He is the author or co author of three books and over 200 scientific papers. ref cite journal title Bibliography Publications of Michael Healy up to May 1998 journal Statistics in Medicine year 1998 volume 17 issue 23 pages 2793 2802 doi 10.1002 SICI 1097 0258 19981215 17 23 2793 AID SIM43 3.0.CO 2 Z ref Books Assessment of Skeletal Matur ... more details
Edward Wakefield 1774 1854 was an English philanthropist and statistician, chiefly known as the author of Ireland, Statistical and Political , and as the father of several controversial sons. Life Edward was the eldest son of Edward Wakefield 1750 1826 and Priscilla Bell , and was born in 1774. Wakefield commenced life as a farmer near Romford in Essex, and was subsequently employed under the naval arsenal. In 1814 he established himself as a land agent at 42 Pall Mall. He soon became well known as an authority on agriculture, while his interest in education won for him the character of a practical philanthropist. He was a strong advocate of the educational theories of Joseph Lancaster , and was on terms of intimacy with James Mill and Francis Place . Wakefield is best known as the author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, published in 1812, a work which, in spite of many inaccuracies, is, from the candour and tolerance it displays, a very valuable account of Ireland in the early years of the nineteenth century. The book was undertaken in 1808 at the suggestion of John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel , formerly chancellor of the Irish exchequer, and Wakefield devoted four years to the task. Mackintosh in the Edinburgh Review , while noting its defects in matters of detail, said of this work that few books have stronger marks of the candour and probity of the writer and McCulloch called it the best and most complete work on Ireland since Arthur Young s tour . Wakefield was a warm admirer of Pitt, by whom he is said to have been consulted in regard to Ireland , and was also confidentially employed by Lord Melville see Robert Saunders Dundas . Wakefield died at Knightsbridge on 18 May 1854. His appearance in later life is described as that of a beautiful old man of lofty stature . Wakefield married, first, on 3 Oct. 1791, Susanna Crash d. 1816 of Felstead, Essex, by whom he was the father ... . NAME Wakefield, Edward ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION English statistician DATE OF BIRTH 1774 ... more details
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About the statistician other people with this name Jacob Cohen disambiguation Jacob Cohen 1923 January 20, 1998 was a United States statistician and psychologist best known for his work on statistical power and effect size , which helped to lay foundations for current statistical meta analysis . ref http media.wiley.com product data excerpt 04 04708608 0470860804 2.pdf Cohen s entry in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science ref ref Citation title Jacob Cohen, PhD, 1923 1998 journal Archives of General Psychiatry year 1999 volume 56 page 581 first Michael last Borenstein url http archpsyc.ama assn.org cgi content extract 56 6 581 doi 10.1001 archpsyc.56.6.581 pages 581 issue 6 ref He gave his name to Cohen s kappa and Cohen s d . Between 1959 and retirement in 1993 he worked in the psychology department at New York University , latterly as the head of the quantitative psychology group. ref citation author Wolfgang Saxon title Jacob Cohen, 74, Psychologist And Pioneer in Statistical Studies publisher New York Times url http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9C07E3D9133DF934A35751C0A96E958260 date February 7, 1998 accessdate May 5, 2010 ref Works Below are listed some of Cohen s works. Where multiple authors are present, full names are used to facilitate reader searches for other works by those authors. citation year 1960 author Jacob Cohen title A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales journal Educational and Psychological Measurement volume 20 issue 1 pages 37 46 url http www.psych.umn.edu faculty waller classes meas08 Readings Cohen1960.pdf accessdate 10 July 2010 citation date October 1968 author Jacob Cohen title Weighted kappa Nominal scale agreement provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit journal Psychological Bulletin volume 70 issue 4 pages 213 220 doi 10.1037 h0026256 pmid 19673146 citation year 1968 author Jacob Cohen title Multiple ... Jewish American scientists Category 1923 births Category 1998 deaths US statistician stub US ... more details
Jack Carl Kiefer January 25, 1924 August 10, 1981 was an American statistics statistician . Biography Jack Kiefer was born on January 25, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio , to Carl Jack Kiefer and Marguerite K. Rosenau. He began his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942, but left after one year, taking up a position as first lieutenant in the United States Air Force during World War II . In 1946, he returned to MIT, graduating with bachelor s and master s degrees in economics and engineering in 1948 under the supervision of Harold Freeman. He then began graduate studies at Columbia University , under the supervision of Abraham Wald and Jacob Wolfowitz , receiving his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics in 1952. While still a graduate student, he began teaching at Cornell University , remaining there until 1979, when he retired from Cornell and accepted a new position as Miller Research Professor in the Department of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1957, he married Dooley Sciple, a former undergraduate student of his at Cornell, with whom he had two children. Kiefer died of a heart attack in Berkeley, California on August 10, 1981. ref name m as harvnb Bechhofer 1982 harvnb O Connor Robertson 2004 . ref Awards and honors Kiefer was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected 1972 and of the United States National Academy of Sciences elected 1975 . From 1969 1970 he was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics . ref name m as In 1973, Kiefer and Michael Fisher were the first two Cornell faculty elected as Horace White Professors. ref http dspace.library.cornell.edu bitstream 1813 ... of experiments ref harvnb Wynn 1984 . ref the American Statistician obituary calls him ... 1981 journal The American Statistician last Bechhofer first R. volume 36 issue 4 year 1982 pages 356 ... more details
Other people2 Robert Gentleman disambiguation Robert Gentleman Infobox scientist name Robert Gentleman image Freely licenced images only. Please do not put a fair use image here, it will be deleted see WP NONFREE image size caption Do you have a picture of Robert Gentleman? Please, post here. birth name birth date birth place nationality other names known for R programming language occupation prizes Benjamin Franklin Award Bioinformatics Robert C. Gentleman born 1959 is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician ref cite doi 10.2202 1544 6115.1034 ref currently working for Genentech . ref cite pmid 21205783 ref ref name genentech http www.gene.com gene research sci profiles bioinfo gentleman profile.html Robert C. Gentleman Senior Director Bioinformatics & Computational Biology ref He is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka , as one of the originators of the R programming language ref cite jstor 1390807 ref ref cite web url http www.nytimes.com 2009 01 07 technology business computing 07program.html title R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts NYTimes.com author Ashlee Vance date 6 January 2009 work publisher New York Times accessdate 17 April 2011 ref and associated software packages like Bioconductor . ref cite doi 10.1186 gb 2004 5 10 r80 ref He got his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Washington in 1988. ref name genentech Awards Gentleman won the Benjamin Franklin Award Bioinformatics Benjamin Franklin Award in 2008. ref http www.bioinformatics.org franklin http www.bioinformatics.org franklin ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Gentleman, Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1959 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Gentleman, Robert Category 1959 births Category Living people Category Bioinformaticians Category Canadian statisticians Category University of Washington alumni ... more details
James Cleland 1770 1840 was a Scottish statistician, known also as a historical writer. Life He was a native of Glasgow , and began life as a cabinet maker, spending some in London. He obtained in 1814 the post of superintendent of public works in Glasgow. In 1819 he was employed by the municipal authorities in taking a census of Glasgow, the most ambitious in the United Kingdom. He was similarly employed in 1821 and 1831. File The Cleland Testimonial . geograph.org.uk 1017088.jpg thumb The Cleland Testimonial at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Street , Glasgow. There is a Cleland Testimonial Grade B listed building in Glasgow. ref http www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk sc 33006 249 buchanan street and 1 7 odd nos sauch British Listed Buildings, 249 Buchanan Street and 1 7 odd Nos Sauchiehall Street Cleland Testimonial Building , Glasgow . ref The architect was David Hamilton architect David Hamilton . ref http www.scottisharchitects.org.uk building full.php?id 203484 scottisharchitects.org.uk, Cleland Testimonial Building . ref It was completed before Cleland s death, and he lived there at the end of his life. ref cite book author1 Raymond McKenzie author2 Gary Nisbet title Public Sculpture of Glasgow url http books.google.com books?id 5szc9GBZLwwC&pg PA46 accessdate 1 May 2012 year 2002 publisher Liverpool University Press isbn 978 0 85323 937 6 page 46 ref Works Cleland published Annals of Glasgow , Glasgow, 1816. Rise and Progress of the City of Glasgow , Glasgow, 1820. Enumeration of the Inhabitants of Glasgow , Glasgow, 1832. Historical Account of Bills of Mortality of the Probability of Human Life in Glasgow and other large towns , Glasgow, 1836. Description of the Banquet in honour of the Right Honourable Sir R. Peel, Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, 13 Jan. 1837 , Glasgow, 1837. Description of the City of Glasgow , Glasgow, 1843. References cite DNB wstitle Cleland, James Notes reflist Attribution DNB wstitle Cleland, James DEFAULTSORT ... more details
David Tim Holt Order of the Bath CB born 29 October 1943 is a United Kingdom British statistician who is Professor Emeritus of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton . He was formerly the president of the Royal Statistical Society 2005 07 , the last director of the Central Statistical Office, UK Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom, and the first director of the Office for National Statistics and ex officio Registrar General . Background Tim Holt took a maths degree and a PhD in statistics at University of Exeter Exeter . Throughout his career, his main interests have been survey methods, sampling theory and official statistics. He took a particular interest, through his membership of the Royal Statistical Society , in the independence of national statistics from government. He was awarded the CB in 2000. Career His first job was with Statistics Canada , the national statistics office of Canada , where he spent four years before joining the Department of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton in 1980. He was Leverhulme Professor of Social Statistics from 1980 to 1995 and Deputy Vice Chancellor from 1990 1995. From 1989 to 1991, he was also vice president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians IASS . He became the Director of the Central Statistical Office, UK Central Statistical Office and Head of the Government Statistical Service in 1995 and, subsequently, the first Director of the Office for National Statistics when it was formed on 1 April 1996 from the merger of the Central Statistical Office, UK Central Statistical Office CSO and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys OPCS . He was President of the Labour Statistics Congress International Labour Organization ILO in 1997 and vice chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission from 1998 to 1999. He returned to the Department of Social Statistics at University ... David Hand statistician David Hand years 2005&ndash 2007 end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia ... more details
William Gordon Hunter , or Bill Hunter, was a statistician at the University of Wisconsin Madison . He was co author of the classic book Statistics for Experimenters , and co founder of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement with George Box Box . Dr. Hunter was born March 27, 1937 in Buffalo, New York . He received a bachelor s degree from Princeton University Princeton in 1959 and in 1960 a Master s degree master s from the University of Illinois in chemical engineering. He then became the first doctoral student at the new department of statistics at the University of Wisconsin Madison founded by George Box . He contributed to the book Statistics for Experimenters by George Box Box , William Hunter, and Stuart Hunter no relation to William Hunter . He founded the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality and the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement in Madison, Wisconsin . The Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality gives an annual award called the William G. Hunter Award link below . According to Dr. Box, He wanted to make a difference in the lives of less fortunate people, and he and his family spent extended periods of time helping third world countries. He taught in Singapore for a year and half and Nigeria for a year both in the 1970 s . He spent a summer lecturing in China in the early 1980 s before China was allowing in many foreign experts . ref cite web title William G. Hunter An innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement by George Box url http cqpi.engr.wisc.edu system files r100.pdf work speech by George Box accessdate 4 February 2012 ref He helped build Singapore s quality movement and wrote an article Building a Quality Movement in developing countries with E. Chacko, August, 1972, Quality Progress. Dr. Hunter was a leader in the effort to adopt the W. Edwards Deming Deming system of Profound Knowledge ... Madison alumni US statistician stub ... more details
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Orphan date May 2010 Richard Mott is a mathematician and statistician at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. He is a Professor by Research at Oxford University . He has worked on physical mapping with Hans Lehrach at Imperial Cancer Research Fund laboratories in London, where he developed a suite of software tools for the construction and validation of physical maps ref http www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed 8493107 Mott et al Nucleic Acids Res. 1993 21 1965 74 ref In 1995 he moved to the Sanger Centre to work on DNA sequence assembly where he wrote software that automatically analysed sequencing trace data in order to edit DNA sequence assemblies. This was used extensively to accelerate sequence production. He wrote the sequence CAFtools assembly pipeline ref http genome.cshlp.org content 8 3 260.long Dear et al Genome Res. 1998, 8 260 7 ref which was used for the pipeline assembly of the human and other genomes at Sanger, and developed software for spliced alignment of EST to genomic DNA. ref Mott Comput Appl Biosci. 1997, 13 77 8, http www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed 9283765 ref Since 1999 he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics ref http www.well.ox.ac.uk ref where he served as Head of Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics. In 2010 he stepped down to concentrate on his own research. He currently leads a group working on quantitative genetics in plants and mice. He has developed methods for mapping in an outbred stock of mice the heterogeneous stock . ref http gscan.well.ox.ac.uk ref He developed the HAPPY software package ref http www.pnas.org content 97 23 12649.long Mott et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 97 12649 54 ref used for high resolution QTL mapping which led to the identification of a quantitative trait gene underlying behavioral variation in mice. ref http www.nature.com ng journal v36 n11 abs ng1450.html Yalcin at al Nat Genet. 2004, 36 1197 202 ref As part of an international collaboration he is developing a genetic reference ... more details
Infobox scientist name Gareth Owen Roberts image filename only image size caption birth date birth place death date death place residence citizenship nationality ethnicity fields Markov Chain Monte Carlo workplaces University of Warwick br University of Lancaster br University of Cambridge br University of Nottingham alma mater University of Warwick br University of Oxford doctoral advisor Saul Jacka ref name MathG MathGenealogy id 94437 ref academic advisors doctoral students Alexandros Beskos br Steve Brooks statistician ref name MathG br Chris Jewell br Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos br Theodore Kypraios br John Leichty ref name MathG br Omiros Papaspiliopoulos notable students known for author abbrev bot author abbrev zoo influences influenced awards religion signature filename only footnotes Gareth O. Roberts is a professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology CRiSM at the University of Warwick . ref name Warwick cite web url http www2.warwick.ac.uk fac sci statistics staff academic roberts case8.6.8.pdf title Researcher Biography ref He is an established authority on the stability of Markov chain s, especially applied to Markov chain Monte Carlo theory methodology for a wide range of latent statistical models with applications in spatial statistics , infectious disease epidemiology and finance . He graduated in 1985 from Jesus College, Oxford in Mathematics ref name ISI cite web url http hcr3.isiknowledge.com author.cgi?&link1 Search&link2 Search 20Results&AuthLastName roberts&AuthFirstName &AuthMiddleName &AuthMailnstName &CountryID 1&DisciplineID 0&id 5059 title ISI Highly Cited Profile ref and subsequently went on to complete in 1988 a PhD thesis on Some Aspects of Stochastic Control Theory and Boundary Hitting Problems for Diffusion Processes under the supervision of Saul Jacka at the University of Warwick . Subsequent to completing his PhD he held various academic positions at the Un ... more details
Infobox person name Wayne R. Smith image alt caption birth name birth date Birth date and age YYYY MM DD birth place Chilliwack, British Columbia , Canada death date Death date and age YYYY MM DD YYYY MM DD death date then birth date death place nationality Canadian other names occupation Chief Statistician of Canada predecessor Munir Sheikh successor incumbent Wayne R. Smith is the current Chief Statistician of Canada . He was appointed interim Chief Statistician in 2010, after the Canada 2011 Census controversial resignation of Munir Sheikh , and appointed Chief Statistician on January 19, 2011. Smith graduated with honours in Bachelor of Arts and a Master s degree in Economics at Carleton University in Ottawa . He has worked for StatsCan since 1981. During his career at StatsCan, Smith has been the Director of the Communications Division, the Director of Special Surveys Division and Director General of Regional Operations Branch and the Assistant Chief Statistician, Communications and Operations. He was also the Assistant Chief Statistician of Business and Trade Statistics Field. ref cite web title Media advisory Canada s new Chief Statistician url http www42.statcan.gc.ca smr09 smr09 024 eng.htm publisher Statistics Canada accessdate 2011 04 21 date 2011 01 18 ref ref cite web title New head of StatsCan faces tough road ahead url http www.thestar.com news canada article 924944 new head of statscan faces tough road ahead publisher Toronto Star accessdate 2011 04 21 date 2011 01 19 ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smith, Wayne ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH Chilliwack, British Columbia , Canada DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smith, Wayne Category Canadian civil servants Category Carleton University alumni Category People from Chilliwack, British Columbia Category Year of birth missing living people Category Article Feedback 5 Canada gov bio stub ... more details
Multiple issues tone July 2010 primarysources July 2010 expert July 2010 Dr. William L. Sanders is a senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina . He developed the Tennessee Value Added Assessment System TVAAS , also known as the Educational Value Added Assessment System EVAAS , a method for measuring a teacher s effect on student performance by tracking the progress of students against themselves over the course of their school career with their assignment to various teachers classes. This system has been used in Tennessee since 1993, and has been adopted by a number of other school district s across the United States. Sanders approach has been used to support the theory that the quality of teachers is central to educational achievement. ref http www.city journal.org html 11 3 why merit pay.html Why Merit Pay Will Improve Teaching by Steven Malanga, City Journal Summer 2001 Bot generated title ref The Pennsylvania and New Hampshire Departments of Education sponsor pilots, and the Iowa School Board Association sponsors his value added work in that state. Battelle for Kids provides interpretation and use trainings for the SAS EVAAS services for the participating districts in Ohio. Using mixed model equations, TVAAS uses the covariance matrix from this multivariate, longitudinal data set to evaluate the impact of the educational system on student progress in comparison to national Psychometrics norm s, with data reports at the district, school, and teacher levels. ref http pareonline.net getvn.asp?v 10&n 11 ref The model focuses on academic gains rather than raw achievement scores. Criticism Dr. Ballou, in Lissitz Ed. , 2005, Value Added Models in Education Theory and Applications, analyzed the TVAAS and determined that value added assessment of teachers are fallible estimates of teacher contribution to student learning, stating that standard error statistics standard error s of value added estimates are large. Author thinks that value added models ar ... more details
dablink For the English footballer see Dean Oliver footballer . Dr. Dean Oliver Ph. D born 1969 is a prominent contributor to the statistical evaluation of basketball, or sometimes called APBRmetrics after the forum of a growing community of basketball analysts. He is the author of Basketball on Paper , ref http www.amazon.com dp 1574886886 ? 5Fencoding UTF8, Amazon.com ref the former producer of the defunct Journal of Basketball Studies . ref http www.rawbw.com deano Journal of Basketball Studies Bot generated title ref More recently Oliver has served in front office roles with the Seattle Supersonics and Denver Nuggets of the NBA. Dean Oliver developed his work through a combination of technical studies and traditional basketball experience. He played Division III collegiate basketball at the historically win challenged Caltech, graduating with honors with a degree in engineering there in 1990, and served as an assistant coach for the team beginning as a junior. He earned a Ph.D. in statistical applications in environmental science at the University of North Carolina in 1994 while scouting for Bertka Views, a scouting organization run by then Laker assistant coach, Bill Bertka. He served as an engineering consultant between 1995 and 2003, continuing to do basketball research during this period, writing Basketball on Paper in 2002 and writing on Pro Basketball for About.com between 1996 and 1998. In 2004, Oliver set out to create a position in the NBA for statistical analysis, following the trend set in baseball, as illustrated by the Michael Lewis book, Moneyball , in 2003. By October 2004, he had impressively accomplished his goal and was hired as the first full time statistical analyst in the NBA. Contributions Among the areas of where he made contributions to the field are the following Possession based analysis , where possessions are defined as the period between when one team gets the ball to when the other team gets it. Teams are evaluated based on how many ... more details
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