Temporal changes in home advantage in English football since the Second World War: What explains improved away performance?

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 669-679

  Jacklin, Paul B ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Home advantage; Professional football; Soccer

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; WAR;

COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCCER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 22644439296     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410400021948     Document Type: Article

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