Home court advantage. In many sports there is a home field

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Home court advantage. In many sports there is a home field or home court advantage. This means that the home team is more likely to win when playing at home than when playing at an opponents field or court, all other things being equal. Go to the website of your favorite sports team and find the proportion of wins for home games and the proportion of wins for away games. Now consider these games to be a random sample of the process that generates wins and losses. A complete analysis of data like these requires methods that are beyond what we have studied, but the methods discussed in this chapter will give us a reasonable approximation. Examine the home court advantage for your team and write a summary of your results. Be sure to comment on the effect of the sample size.