Introduction to Statistics (MAT 1181) <- Courses <- Sean Forman <- You Are Here
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For Spring 2001
Syllabus in PDF format
Download a PDF viewer
Baseball-Reference.com
Go to the league summary and look under batting register for the
various years.
Here are a couple of bios of John Tukey. Biography 1 S.F. Chronicle Obituary
Dr. Ambruso has placed an intro to SPSS for both Mac and Windows users on her website. It may be helpful.
There will be tutoring specifically for statistics in the Science Center room 302 (the Learning Resource Center) on Tues. 6 - 9 p.m. and 12 - 2 p.m. and on Thurs. 12 - 2 p.m.
There are many ways to do this, but this is one method that should work.
You should try using SPSS to directly import the data or you can open it in excel and clean it up that way.
Here is how you would do it in excel.
open the page in your browser
Select the statistics and copy
Paste the statistics into the first column in excel
Select the first column
Perform a "text to columns" operation on the column, the data is fixed width.
Save the information you have so far.
Next delete the unnecessary columns, everything but name, BA and AB
Sort on AB descending
Delete all the unnecessary rows
Save your work again.
Copy the data for players with more than 100 at bats into SPSS.
Make sure that you have the proper column types defined and save the new SPSS data file.