Baseball players with the initial "k" do not strike out more often

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 881-891

  McCullough, B D ^a   McWilliams, Thomas P ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Name letter effect; Spurious correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952349760     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760902889965     Document Type: Article

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