Estimating production efficiency in men's NCAA college basketball: A Bayesian approach

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 287-315

  Rimler, Michael S ^a   Song, Seongho ^b   Yi, David T ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; College basketball; MCMC; Production efficiency; Stochastic frontier estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952307851     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: 15527794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002509337803     Document Type: Article

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