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Article: Quantitative aspects of five-pin bowling.
- Article from:
- The American Statistician
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
- Author:
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1994 American Statistical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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1. INTRODUCTION
The sport of five-pin bowling was invented in Canada by Thomas F. Ryan in either 1908 or 1909 and is Canada's number-one participant sport: it is enjoyed by more than 2 million Canadians in more than 700 bowling centers (see Hong 1988). It is also played in some parts of the United States, where the sport of ten-pin bowling is by far the more popular game. Despite this popularity, nothing of a quantitative nature has ever been published on the subject.
This article investigates the statistical distribution of five-pin bowling scores by analyzing 2,100 scores taken from a league of adult bowlers. The logarithms of these bowling scores are shown to ...
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