Continuing on with fun, if silly, analyses: a little voice in my head
suggests a time series model and, rather than putting any thought
into, I'll use some R-goodness.
Setting up the data as Rui provided, we need to add some NA's to
account for WWII:
library(zoo)
golddata.ts -
Hello,
The main critique, I think, is that we assume a certain type of model
where the times can decrease until zero. And that they can do so
linearly. I believe that records can allways be beaten but 40-50 years
ago times were measured in tenths of a second, now we see a gain in the
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Rui Barradas ruipbarra...@sapo.pt wrote:
Hello,
The main critique, I think, is that we assume a certain type of model
where the times can decrease until zero. And that they can do so linearly.
I believe that records can allways be beaten but 40-50 years ago
Hi Rui: I hate to sound like a pessimist/cynic and also I should state that
I didn't look
at any of the analysis by you or the other person. But, my question, ( for
anyone who wants to chime in ) is: given that all these olympic 100-200
meter runners post times that are generally within 0.1-0.3
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