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Brigham Young University

2008

Gibbs sampling

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Skill Evaluation In Women's Volleyball, Lindsay W. Florence, Gilbert W. Fellingham, Pat R. Vehrs, Nina P. Mortensen Apr 2008

Skill Evaluation In Women's Volleyball, Lindsay W. Florence, Gilbert W. Fellingham, Pat R. Vehrs, Nina P. Mortensen

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The Brigham Young University Women's Volleyball Team recorded and rated all skills (pass, set, attack, etc.) and recorded rally outcomes (point for BYU, rally continues, point for opponent) for the entire 2006 home volleyball season. Only sequences of events occurring on BYU's side of the net were considered. Events followed one of these general patterns: serve-outcome, pass-set-attack-outcome, or block-dig-set-attack-outcome. These sequences of events were assumed to be first-order Markov chains where the quality of each contact depended only on the quality of the previous contact but not explicitly on contacts further removed in the sequence. We represented these sequences in …

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Skill Evaluation In Women's Volleyball, Lindsay Walker Florence Mar 2008

Skill Evaluation In Women's Volleyball, Lindsay Walker Florence

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The Brigham Young University Women's Volleyball Team recorded and rated all skills (pass, set, attack, etc.) and recorded rally outcomes (point for BYU, rally continues, point for opponent) for the entire 2006 home volleyball season. Only sequences of events occurring on BYU's side of the net were considered. Events followed one of these general patterns: serve-outcome, pass-set-attack-outcome, or block-dig-set-attack-outcome. These sequences of events were assumed to be first-order Markov chains where the quality of each contact depended only explicitly on the quality of the previous contact but not on contacts further removed in the sequence. We represented these sequences in …

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