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1. 1. www.dailyprincetonian.com

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   Published on: 4/18/2008   Last Visited: 4/18/2008

   Jim Albert, a math and statistics professor at Bowling Green State University has written a book titled "Teaching Statistics Using Baseball" in which he outlines his curriculum for a first-year course in statistics based entirely on baseball.
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   "Many students are familiar with sports either as a participant or a spectator," Albert wrote in the preface of "Teaching Statistics Using Baseball."
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   And the ones we don't have, James is busy inventing, like a player's secondary average , meant to complement his batting average , which equals (doubles + (triples x 2) + (home runs x 3) + walks + stolen bases) / (total number of at bats).

2. 2. James H. Albert - Key Curriculum Press

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   Published on: 12/23/2006   Last Visited: 12/23/2006

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   James H. (Jim) Albert is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He holds a BS from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and a PhD in statistics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Mathematical Association of America and has served as an officer for ASA's Section on Statistics in Sports and the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. He has served on the editorial boards of Communications in Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. His research interests are in Bayesian modeling, statistical education, and the application of statistics in sports.

3. 3. ite.pubs.informs.org

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   Published on: 9/1/2004   Last Visited: 2/29/2008

   At Bowling Green State University, Jim Albert teaches an introductory undergraduate statistics class using just baseball examples and has published a book on the subject (Albert, 2003).