A state-space model for national football league scores

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 441, 1998, Pages 25-35

  Glickman, Mark E ^a   Stern, Hal S ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian diagnostics; Dynamic models; Kalman filter; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Predictive inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032329161     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10474084     Document Type: Article

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