Forecasting sport: The behaviour and performance of football tipsters

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-331

  Forrest, David ^a   Simmons, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Football; Logit; Newspaper tipsters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039887199     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(00)00050-9     Document Type: Article

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