team.batting.00to08 {nutshell}R Documentation

MLB Team Batting Statistics, 2000-2008

Description

This data set contains statistics on team batting between 2000 and 2008.

Usage

data(team.batting.00to08)

Format

A data frame with 270 observations on the following 13 variables.

teamID
a character vector
yearID
a numeric vector
runs
a numeric vector
singles
a numeric vector
doubles
a numeric vector
triples
a numeric vector
homeruns
a numeric vector
walks
a numeric vector
stolenbases
a numeric vector
caughtstealing
a numeric vector
hitbypitch
a numeric vector
sacrificeflies
a numeric vector
atbats
a numeric vector

Details

This data contains aggregate offensive statistics for each team in Major League Baseball between 2000 and 2008. It is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Media.

Source

The data was derived from the Baseball Databank database, downloadable from http://www.baseball-databank.org.

Examples

data(team.batting.00to08)
attach(team.batting.00to08)
runs.mdl <- lm(
  formula=runs~singles+doubles+triples+homeruns+
    walks+hitbypitch+sacrificeflies+
    stolenbases+caughtstealing,
  data=team.batting.00to08)
summary(runs.mdl)

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