Ep 69 - Paul van Staden Tennis, Cricket and Rugby

Paul J. van Staden is a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He earned his PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Pretoria in 2014. His research focuses on statistical distribution theory, in particular the construction of generalized families of probability distributions in the quantile statistical universe. With respect to sports analytics, his research interests include team and player performance measures in cricket, modeling of score distributions in rugby and cricket, and rating and ranking systems. He has furthermore collaborated in various research projects ranging from tongue protrusion and bite mark analysis in forensic pathology to oral and dental diseases in cheetahs.

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