14 Intermediate and advanced modeling
This chapter covers
- Fitting and evaluating analysis of variance models and logistic regressions
- Computing probabilities, odds ratios, and log odds
- Computing and plotting sensitivity and specificity
- Running correlation tests
- Creating new and improved boxplots
The idea that “defense wins championships” might have come from legendary college football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, who led the Alabama Crimson Tide to six national titles in the 1960s and 1970s. The same idea then extended into basketball, especially the NBA. Despite the fact that NBA teams spend roughly half their time and effort playing offense and the other half playing defense, the view that defense matters more than offense took hold and remains ...
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