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The hot hand is real?! Understanding a controversial statistics paper.../Hey--guess what? There really is a hot hand!/Surprised by the gambler's and hot hand fallacies? A truth in the law of small numbers...
- Source :
- Mathematics Magazine; Dec2015, Vol. 88 Issue 5, p386-386, 1/3p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The article discusses online papers on streakiness and hot hand fallacy in sports including one by Presh Tawalkar that discusses selection bias; another by Joshua Benjamin Miller and Adam Sanjurjo on the law of small numbers; and an explanation of the fallacy by Yosef Rinott and Maya Bar-Hillel.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0025570X
- Volume :
- 88
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Mathematics Magazine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114812010
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.88.5.385