Statistical test of throwing events on the rotating Earth: Lack of correlations between range and geographic location

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 411-415

  Janosi I M ^a   Bantay P ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

01.80.+b Physics of sports; 02.50. r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 19044388976     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2002-00397-0     Document Type: Article

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