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Date: Wednesday, November 18th, 3:00 pm
Title: A Logistic Regression Analysis on Women's College Volleyball Box Scores
Presented by: Carolyn Pace
Location: Hardin Hall, Room 49
ABSTRACT:
In 2008, the Nebraska Volleyball team defeated the University of Hawaii in a match that, based on the box score statistics, seemed as though the University of Hawaii should have been the clear winner. Following this match, the Nebraska Women’s Volleyball coach requested that an analysis be run to determine which variables recorded in the box score are the most influential in deciding the outcome of a game. I collected data from all Big 12 schools for both conference and post season games over the last 5 years and analyzed the data using Logistic Regression. Before running any analysis, I standardized the variables to compensate for different scoring systems and length of games seen throughout the 5 years. Various regression procedures (in both SAS and R) were performed to determine which variables should be included in the final model.
