# Teaching Statistics Using Baseball

### By Jim Albert

Catalog Code: TSB
Print ISBN: 978-0-88385-727-4
304 pp., Paperbound, 2003
List Price: $56.95 MAA Member:$45.50
Series: Classroom Resource Materials

There is an active effort by people in the baseball community to learn more about baseball performance and strategy by the use of statistics. This book illustrates basic methods of data analysis and probability models by means of baseball statistics collected on players and teams. Students often have difficulty learning statistical concepts since they are explained using examples that are foreign to the students. The idea of the book is to describe statistical thinking in a context (that is, baseball) that will be familiar and interesting to students.

An Introduction to Baseball Statistics
Exploring a Single Batch of Baseball Data
Comparing Batches and Standardization
Relationships Between Measurement Variables
Introduction to Probability Using Tabletop Games
Probability Distributions and Baseball
Introduction to Statistical Inference
Topics in Statistical Inference
Modeling Baseball Using a Markov Chain
An Introduction to Baseball
Datasets Used in the Book and Acquiring Baseball Data over the Internet
References
Index