References
- Churchill Downs Incorporated (2018), “1891,” available at https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/year/1891.
- Meyer, M., and Sen, B. (2017), “DoubleCone: Test Against Parametric Regression Function,” R Package Version 1.1, available at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DoubleCone.
- Raceday 360 (2015), “Kentucky Derby Winners—1875—Current: All Data,” available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1glkkoJip82ZrejP8Qn6drkmgbHhRbvPOQJWLZ\_KnIrc/pubhtml.
- Ramsey, F., and Schafer, D. (2013), The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed.), Boston, MA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
- Data Sources
- Wikipedia provides a page summarizing each year’s race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Derby
- The Kentucky Derby website maintains a lot of statistics, but are sometimes hidden. Currently, you can access the charts for results table for each year in the following url: https://www.kentuckyderby.com/media/reference
- For example, https://www.kentuckyderby.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/2016/02/u10/DERBY_CHARTS_1885-1918.pdf
- Some students appreciate viewing the original data source like this. Some can write a scraping algorithm to loop through the pages.
- Data on the pole positions were confirmed at this site: https://www.kentuckyderby.com/uploads/wysiwyg/assets/uploads/Post_Positions__Kentucky_Derby__2018__1.pdf