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Estimating Bounds on Athletic Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Michael Deakin*
Affiliation:
Deft, of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia

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A sequence of athletic records forms by definition a monotonic sequence. Since it is reasonable to assume this to be bounded, it follows that a limit must exist to future performance. It has been proposed [1, 2] that this can be estimated by use of a curve-fitting procedure on existing data, such as may be found in many compendia of athletic records (e.g. [3]).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1967 

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