The 12th man?: Refereeing bias in English and German soccer

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 431-449

  Buraimo, Babatunde ^a   Forrest, David ^b   Simmons, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bivariate probit; Favouritism; Red cards; Referees; Soccer; Yellow cards

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950959080     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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