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  "path": "/t/clustering-in-the-denominator-non-independence-of-starts-in-racing-fatality-studies/28662#post_3",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-28T16:19:32.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I thought about this in light of Efron’s paper on the Stein paradox which I love because baseball was really what got me interested in statistics. Batting averages and ERA are what we had growing up… its a much richer milieu of statistics now.\n\nstein_whitepaper.pdf (869.9 KB)\n\nsteinsparadox.pdf (965.8 KB)",
  "title": "Clustering in the denominator: non-independence of starts in racing fatality studies"
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