A Monte Carlo Approach to Joe DiMaggio and Streaks in Baseball

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dc.creatorArbesman, S.
dc.creatorStrogatz, S. H.
dc.date2008-07-31
dc.date2008-08-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:54:00Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:54:00Z
dc.descriptionWe examine Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and look at its likelihood, using a number of simple models. And it turns out that, contrary to many people's expectations, an extreme streak, while unlikely in any given year, is not unlikely to have occurred about once within the history of baseball. Surprisingly, however, such a record should have occurred far earlier in baseball history: back in the late 1800's or early 1900's. But not in 1941, when it actually happened.
dc.description14 pages, 10 figures; typos corrected, acknowledgments added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0807.5082
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0807.5082
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/166158
dc.subjectPopular Physics
dc.subjectData Analysis, Statistics and Probability
dc.titleA Monte Carlo Approach to Joe DiMaggio and Streaks in Baseball
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