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- He wrote papers with titles like "The Galactic distribution of the 511 ke V e+/e- annihilation radiation" and "Antimatter in the universe and the PAMELA/FERMI/AMS anomaly."
- But in 2009, he turned his attention to something a little more frivolous and presumably much easier to understand than the behavior of the invisible forces that shape the Milky Way: the game of soccer.
- Along with a colleague, Guy Freeman, Skinner wrote a paper for the Journal of Applied Statistics to "consider what, if anything, can be deduced from the result of a match about the relative strengths of the teams."
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He wrote papers with titles like "The Galactic distribution of the 511 ke V e+/e- annihilation radiation" and "Antimatter in the universe and the PAMELA/FERMI/AMS anomaly."
But in 2009, he turned his attention to something a little more frivolous and presumably much easier to understand than the behavior of the invisible forces that shape the Milky Way: the game of soccer.
Along with a colleague, Guy Freeman, Skinner wrote a paper for the Journal of Applied Statistics to "consider what, if anything, can be deduced from the result of a match about the relative strengths of the teams."
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