In a recent paper – Birth, Death, Coincidences and Occupancies: Solutions and Applications of Generalized Birthday and Occupancy Problems – Miami University professor of Electrical and Computer ...

Football has often been described as a game won in the trenches. For years, however, quantifying the performance of individual blockers and pass rushers remained a challenge. Traditional statistics ...

Vol. 48, No. 2, Language Probability Models, Hypertext Fiction, Implied Authors, and Historiographic Metafiction (Summer 2014), pp. 119-139 (21 pages) Russian verse studies are characterized by a ...

In a simple model for sports, the probability A beats B is a specified function of their difference in strength. One might think this would be a staple topic in Applied Probability textbooks (like the ...

Léo R. Belzile's research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and IVADO. HEC Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR.

Leveraging Tracking Data to Contextualize the Difficulty of a Throw Not all passes are created equal. A quarterback receives the same credit for a completion whether the pass traveled 60 yards ...