The authors of the article Predicting Professional Sports Game Outcomes from Intermediate Game Scores (Chance, 1992: 18-22)
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Sport...................Late-Game Leader Wins............... Late-Game Leader Loses
Basketball......................................... 150............................................. 39
Baseball............................................. 86.............................................. 6
Hockey .............................................65.............................................. 15
Football .............................................72............................................. 21
The authors state that "Late-game leader is defined as the team that is ahead after three quarters in basketball and football, two periods in hockey, and seven innings in baseball. The chi-square value on three degrees of freedom is 10.52 (P < .015)."
a. State the relevant hypotheses and reach a conclusion using a = .05.
b. Do you think that your conclusion in part (a) can be attributed to a single sport being an anomaly?
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Probability And Statistics For Engineering And The Sciences
ISBN: 9781305251809
9th Edition
Authors: Jay L. Devore
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