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Entries from June 2008

With Streaks, It’s Better To Be Lucky, Good and Lucky

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s a piece written by Andrew Thomas, one of our graduate student members, on the likelihood of different “streaky” accomplishments in baseball. It uses some probability and statistics to try to prove the difficulty of reaching certain milestones.

Fans of Major League Baseball have seen three major achievements in recent
weeks, each in a different discipline […]

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