The effect of new balls in tennis: Four years at Wimbledon

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-246

  Magnus, Jan R ^a   Klaassen, Franc J G M ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Tennis; Wimbledon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000095793     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00185     Document Type: Article

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