Gembris, Daniel; Taylor, John G.; Suter, Dieter - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 34 (2007) 5, pp. 529-545
Athletic records represent the best results in a given discipline, thus improving monotonically with time. As has already been shown, this should not be taken as an indication that the athletes' capabilities keep improving. In other words, a new record is not noteworthy just because it is a new...