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Cynthia Frelund dives into the numbers to quantify the impact of pressure using Next Gen Stats' new Pressure Probability model. A look back at the five fastest ball carriers from Week 17 of the 2025 ...

Research of the probability and statistics group includes particle systems, theoretical statistics, non-conventional random walks, random matrix theory, and random polynomials. Research interests also ...