http://blog.war-on-ice.com/density-plots-for-modern-hockey-statistics/ Your site for modern hockey analytics Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:11:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://blog.war-on-ice.com/density-plots-for-modern-hockey-statistics/#comment-22 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 03:49:18 +0000 http://blog.war-on-ice.com/?p=196#comment-22 […] A useful tool for the comparisons of the distributions of continuous variables is a density curve, which represents the smoothed curve line that we would fit over a histogram had we made a histogram of the distribution. But unlike histograms, which can be difficult to look at for comparisons, density curves make it nice and easy to compare centers, shapes, and spreads (if you want to read more on density curves in sports, check out War-on-Ice’s post here). […]

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