Modelling performance at international tennis and golf tournaments: Is there a home advantage?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 551-559

  Holder, Roger L ^a   Nevill, Alan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Log linear modelling; Logistic and polytomous regression; Permutation regression methods; Tournament results; World ranks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012115837     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00109     Document Type: Article

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