The Interaction between baseball attendance and winning percentage: A VAR analysis

International Journal of Sport Finance

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-73

  Davis, Michael C ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attendance; Baseball; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149519926     PISSN: 15586235     EISSN: 1930076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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