Development, application, and limitation of a stochastic markov model in explaining championship squash performance

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 406-415

  McGarry, Tim ^a   Franks, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Measurement and evaluation; Modeling; Sport

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MALE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RACQUET SPORTS;

EID: 0030346220     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.1996.10607972     Document Type: Article

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