The following paper accompanies this app and provides a discussion of the methods upon which the app is based, illustrations of hot hand analyses that can be performed using the app, and suggested activities.

• Ross, K. (2017). “Classroom Investigations of Recent Research Concerning the Hot Hand Phenomenon.” Journal of Statistics Education. 25(3).

This data set accompanies the paper. It contains the results from the NBA Three-Point Contest for 2013-2017. For each year, player, and round, the results of all the player's attempts in the round are recorded in sequence, with 1 indicating a made field goal (success) and 0 indicating a miss (failure). (In most cases there are 25 attempts in a round.) The results sequence for a particular player can be copied and pasted into the Enter observed results sequence box.

The hot hand analysis which the app performs is based on the methods in a series of papers by Joshua B. Miller and Adam Sanjurjo which have been a subject of much discussion and media coverage.

• Miller, J. B. and Sanjurjo, A. (2014). “A Cold Shower for the Hot Hand Fallacy”. Working paper (Dec 2014).
• — (2015). “Is it a Fallacy to Believe in the Hot Hand in the NBA Three-Point Contest?”. Working paper (Jun 2015).
• — (2016). “Surprised by the Gambler’s and Hot Hand Fallacies? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers”. Working paper (Aug 2016).
• — (2016). “A Primer and Frequently Asked Questions for ‘Surprised by the Gambler's and Hot Hand Fallacies? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers’ (Miller and Sanjurjo 2015)”. Working paper (Feb 2016).

The paper accompanying the app also uses data from the following seminal study on the hot hand in basketball, which is referenced numerous times in the Miller and Sanjurjo papers and related literature.

• Gilovich, T., Vallone, R., and Tversky, A. (1985). “The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences”. Cognitive Psychology 17, 295-314.