An Introductory Application of Principal Components to Cricket Data

An Introductory Application of Principal Components to Cricket Data

Principal Component Analysis is widely used in applied multivariate data analysis, and this article shows how to motivate student interest in this topic using cricket sports data. Here, principal component analysis is successfully used to rank the cricket batsmen and bowlers who played in the 2012 I...

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Published in:Journal of statistics education Vol. 21; no. 3
Main Authors: Manage, Ananda B. W., Scariano, Stephen M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 01-01-2013
American Statistical Association
Subjects:
Athletics
Competition
Correlation
Cricket
Data Analysis
Factor Analysis
Graduate Study
Matrices
Multivariate Analysis
Multivariate statistics
Performance Based Assessment
Principal components
Sports data
Statistics
Student Interests
Team Sports
Undergraduate Study
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Summary:Principal Component Analysis is widely used in applied multivariate data analysis, and this article shows how to motivate student interest in this topic using cricket sports data. Here, principal component analysis is successfully used to rank the cricket batsmen and bowlers who played in the 2012 Indian Premier League (IPL) competition. In particular, the first principal component is seen to explain a substantial portion of the variation in a linear combination of some commonly used measures of cricket prowess. This application provides an excellent, elementary introduction to the topic of principal component analysis.
ISSN:1069-1898
1069-1898
DOI:10.1080/10691898.2013.11889689