What is the most competitive sport?

Journal of the Korean Physical Society

Volumn 50, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 124-126

  Ben Naim, E ^a   Vazquez, F ^b   Redner, S ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Competition; Sports statistics; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846660732     PISSN: 03744884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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