Publications by Millsy
sab-R-metrics: Merging Data Sets
I am finally back from Greece and recovered from jet lag. Fortunately, I did not get tear gassed while in Athens, though there were riot police everywhere the whole time we visited. Today, I’m going to start getting my feet wet again with a shorter sab-R-metrics post to assure everyone I’m not too MIA.Often times we have lots of...
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Sam Fuld, Bob Carpenter, and Statistical Inference Blog
Here is a quick post responding to a request by Bob Carpenter at one of my favorite nerd blogs: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science. While a lot of the Bayesian theory is out of my league, Dr. Gelman really makes you think about some applied statistical problems in social science.Anyway, the request was for a qu...
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More on JSM
While my time at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings was short–I unfortunately missed some presentations I would have like to have attended–it was a great experience. The collection of academics and professionals is very different from the other conferences that I have attended (like Sport Management and Tourism conferences) and ...
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Link to StatDNA Guest Post
The post is officially up on the StatDNA blog. Go check it out.As I said in my previous post, this is a very rough and preliminary model. This is why my work was not any sort of formal entry, just some fun with some great data.I used an Vector Generalized Additive Proportional Odds Model to evaluate the change in win probability for...
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Sabermetrics Meets R Meetup
I just ran across this post at Big Computing. On November 14th, there will be an R User meet-up in Washington, DC (Tyson’s Corner) led by Mike Driscoll about using R for sabermetric analysis (linked here). I will actually be home in Maryland for a couple weeks, and likely in DC on that Monday so there’s a good chance that I will...
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Strike Zone Changes?
It’s been a while since I have posted here. I have been swamped with some papers I am trying to get out, finishing up the dissertation, and interviews (faculty ones in addition to others). I should have some big news in the next couple of weeks regarding this last activity. But something spurred me to take a break from this proce...
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Advanced sab-R-metrics: Parallelization with the ‘mgcv’ Package
Carson Sievert (creator of the really neat pitchRx package) and Steamer Projections posed a question about reasonable run times of the mgcv package on large data in R yesterday, and promised my Pitch F/X friends I would post here with a quick tip on speeding things up. Most of this came from Google searching, so I do not claim to be...
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