I sort of just stumbled across these graphs accidentally. Â If there’s a point to them, it might be that this is what happens when you have a small ski team that manages to produce a really, really fast skier (or two). You hold on to them for as long as humanly possible. First up, Estonia. […]
Tagged Age, Estonia, FranceYes. That whole shooting bit. Â Tricky, isn’t it? So maybe a bit more discussion would be good. Â This graph shows the distributions of the median absolute deviations (MADs) by athlete and season, for those athletes who competed in at least five major competitions in that season. Biathletes, due to wild swings in shooting performance, are […]
Tagged biathlon, variability, xcHappy October everyone! Â Can’t you just smell the ski season around the corner? Previously on Statistical Skier: We took a look at the quality of OPA Cup and Scandinavian Cup (sort of a minor league race series for the World Cup) races as measure by the FIS points awarded to the top skiers at those […]
When most people say that World Cup skiers are animals, they probably mean they are fierce, strong competitors. Â I got my PhD in statistics in a department that found itself working quite often with very strong wildlife biology and ecology departments, so for me that reference leads me to think, “Well, what if they really […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, R, survival, technical, World Cup