Includes logistic regression, lasso, ridge and cross validated & pruned decision trees.

Normal hyperpriors and priors on offensive and defensive ability of each NBA team, normal prior for home court advantage, poisson likelihood function for points scored for both home and away team. Comparison of posterior means of off and def parameter to offensive and defensive rating.

Metroplis-Hastings algorithm to find posterior distribution of parameters assuming gamma likelihood functions and Jefferys prior