Baseball Batting Averages — baseball • CASIdata

Batting averages for 18 Major League players in the 1970 season, from Table 7.1. This dataset illustrates empirical Bayes estimation, where early-season performance is used to predict full-season batting averages.

Format

A data frame with 18 rows and 3 variables:

Player: Player ID number
MLE: Batting average based on the first 90 at-bats of the season
TRUTH: Batting average for the remainder of the 1970 season

Source

https://hastie.su.domains/CASI_files/DATA/baseball.txt

References

Efron, B. and Hastie, T. (2016). Computer Age Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, Table 7.1.