Paola Zuccolotto, Marica Manisera

Basketball Data Science (eBook, ePUB)

With Applications in R

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book will deal with statistical analysis of basketball data, with special attention to the most recent advances. The book will be of use to statisticians and machine learning experts who want to work in the basketball field. Readers will be able to create graphs and analyses thanks to some new R functions that will be illustrated in the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 243
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429894251
• Artikelnr.: 58486660

Autorenporträt

Paola Zuccolotto and Marica Manisera are, respectively, Full and Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Brescia. Paola Zuccolotto is the scientific director of the Big & Open Data Innovation Laboratory (BODaI-Lab), where she coordinates, together with Marica Manisera, the international project Big Data Analytics in Sports (BDsports).

They carry out scientific research activity in the field of Statistical Science, both with a methodological and applied approach. They authored/co-authored several scientific articles in international journals and books, participated to many national and international conferences, also as organizers of specialized sessions, often on the topic of Sports Analytics. They regularly act as scientific reviewers for the world's most prestigious journals in the field of Statistics.

Paola Zuccolotto is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Sports Sciences, while Marica Manisera is Associate Editor of the Journal of Sports Analytics; both of them are guest co-editors of special issues of international journals on Statistics in Sports. The International Statistical Institute (ISI) delegated them the task of revitalizing its Special Interest Group (SIG) on Sports Statistics. Marica Manisera is the Chair of the renewed ISI SIG on Sport.

Both of them teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of Statistics and are responsible for the scientific area dedicated to Sport Analytics at the PhD "Analytics for Economics and Management" of the University of Brescia. They also teach courses and seminars on Sports Analytics in University Masters on Sports Engineering and specialized training projects devoted to people operating in the sports world. They supervise students' internships, final reports and master's theses on the subject of Statistics, often with applications to sport data. They also work in collaboration with high-school teachers, creating experimental educational projects to bring students closer to quantitative subjects through Sport Analytics.