Performance profiling as an intelligence-led approach to antidoping in sports

James Hopker1, Jim Griffin2, James Brookhouse1

  • 1School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Kent, UK.

Drug Testing and Analysis
|December 18, 2019
PubMed
Summary

Analyzing athlete performance trajectories can help detect doping. This study uses a Bayesian spline model to identify distinct performance patterns in clean versus doped athletes, improving targeted anti-doping efforts.

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