Tools of the analysis of the structure and dynamics of athletic development on the example of handball

The results of a two-year observation of female handball players were processed using multidimensional statistical analysis. In accordance with the assumptions of system analysis and praxeologic methodology, the issues of the selection and choice of girls for sports training are presented on the example of the initial and directed stage of the training process. The work demonstrates that the fundamental issue in the sport science is the proper choice of the variables and their indices that best describe the relevant phenomenon. The solution of this problem enables the effective analysis of the structure and dynamics of the phenomena the sports training. To achieve this aim, a complementary set of the statistical analysis tools was presented, such as linear sorting of the investigated objects, cluster analysis, factor analysis and discriminative analysis.