Kuper, Gerard H.; Sterken, Elmer - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit … - 2006
We model the development of world records of metric running events from the 100 meter dash to the marathon for men and women. First, we review methods to fit time-series curves of world records in general. We discuss methods to estimate curves and review candidate functional forms that fit the...