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Archetypal Athletes

@inproceedings{Eugster2011ArchetypalA,
  title={Archetypal Athletes},
  author={M. Eugster},
  year={2011}
}

M. Eugster

Published 2011

Mathematics, Physics

Discussions on outstanding—positively and/or negatively—athletes are common practice. The rapidly grown amount of collected sports data now allow to support such discussions with state of the art statistical methodology. Given a (multivariate) data set with collected data of athletes within a specific sport, outstanding athletes are values on the data set boundary. In the present paper we propose archetypal analysis to compute these extreme values. The so-called archetypes, i.e., archetypal… CONTINUE READING

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