If you play well they will come - And vice versa: Bidirectional causality in major-league baseball

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-105

  Horowitz, Ira ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 33947637674     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1308     Document Type: Article

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