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Statistics for Exceptional Athletics Records
Author(s) -
Robinson Michael E.,
Tawn Jonathan A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2986141
Subject(s) - statistics , history , mathematics
SUMMARY Extreme records in athletics are increasingly questioned as being due to the use of performance enhancing drugs. to assess such performances, statistical methods are developed that are based on extreme value techniques for estimating the ultimate performance possible by the current population of competing athletes. These methods are applied to the analysis of data from the women's 3000 m track event, where we find that a recently broken record shows signs of being inconsistent with previous performances.