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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Intraclass correlation

By Tangotiger, 10:56 AM

Pizza talks about it all the time, and has a blog post to it.  But, darned if I know what it’s actually doing.  When I do my thing, I figure the z-score for the stat for each player (number of standard deviations, SD, from the mean), and then calculate the SD of the z-scores.  The correlation is r = 1 - 1/SDzScore^2.  So, if the SD of all the z-scores is 1.41, then r = .50.  If it’s 2.0, then r=.80.  I think this is what Pizza also does, and so, I guess I’m doing an intraclass correlation without even knowing it.  Regardless, what I do seems sound.  I like what Guy said in the comments in response to my comment:

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