Principles of Sport Analytics

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The class provides an overview of the purpose and application of analytical decision-making in sport. Topics include: basic and conditional probability, inferential statistics, predictive modeling with simple and multiple regression analysis, data visualization, and machine learning basics. Upon completion of this course, students will gain an understanding of how sport analytics is an integrative and iterative process and will be able to demonstrate contextual, technical, and analytical knowledge of sport analytics.