Forecasting Football Results and the Efficiency of Fixed-odds Betting

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-66

  Goddard, John ^a   Asimakopoulos, Ioannis ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (OTE)   (Greece)

Author keywords

Efficiency, ordered probit; Sports betting

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FINANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ORDERED PROBIT; SPORTS BETTING;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

EID: 1642443204     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/for.877     Document Type: Review

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