A penalized maximum likelihood approach for the ranking of college football teams independent of victory margins

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 241-248

  Mease, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Paired comparisons; Rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242710936     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130032396     Document Type: Article

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