Are You a Stat Nut?

[tafnut]

Re: Are You a Stat Nut?

So is it Kederis or Kenteris . . . or mud?

[mike renfro]

Re: Are You a Stat Nut?

The Kederis/Kenteris is probably some transliteration problem. I ran into that a lot with SU names, the Europeans tend to use the German system, in US, LOC. I vaguely know the Greek alphabet, and can't work out where a transliteration problem would lie. It probably would help to see his name in Greek. And, yes, his name has been legally changed to mud.

[slowcoach]

Re: Are You a Stat Nut?

ΚεντÎρης

I don't know Greek, but it looks like Kenteris to me.

Anybody else?

The 'v' is a lower case 'n'

http://www.kenteris.gr/biography_gr.htm

[RMc]

Re: Are You a Stat Nut?

Well, to go over the top with "geeky" I've developed a table to compare performances on different legs of the Lake Tahoe Road Relay (aka DeCelle Memorial) run each June. I used performance data from two clubs going back to 1989. This year I used the table to predict individual performances and overall times. I predicted that our men's masters team would run 7:33:30--we ran 7:33:29.

I'm more interested in how performances relate to each other based on statistical properties and moments. A long term project I'm interested in is compiling the top 10 lists back 100 years and estimating how performances have changed across events over time.

[carfu]

Re: Are You a Stat Nut?

I don't know Greek, but it
>looks like Kenteris to me.

Anybody else?

The 'v' is a lower case
>'n'

The name is written Kenteris, but the letters "nt" are to be pronounced "d" in Greek, hence the confusion

[mike renfro]

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Yeah, slowcoach, the "literal" transliteration would be Kenteras (the eta can go a couple ways), and the "phonetic" may well be Kederas. Where is tafnut when we need him? He is teaching the Odyssey this term. He should be on top of Greek pronunciation. Of course, ancient Greek may be a whole nuther thang. Oh, yeah, tafnut has a pretty full plate right now.

[berkeley]

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A colleague is Greek, and he said the spelling is Kenteris but in the spoken language the "nt" sounds more like a "d".

BTW, the same guy was in Athens during the OG, and he said every taxi driver and vendor he spoke to was firmly convinced of the conspiracy theory that the US had somehow engineered the removal of Kederis & Thanou.

[tafnut]

Re: Are You a Stat Nut?

tafnut don't know nuffins bout no Greek pronunciations (but probably should). There's a nice glossary in the back of the book, but alas, 'Kenteris' is not there.