Modeling attendance at Spanish professional football league

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1189-1206

  Villa, Guillermo ^a   Molina, Isabel ^b   Fried, Roland ^c  

^a Fundación Observatorio Económico Del Deporte   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demand for sports; Linear mixed models; Longitudinal data; Model selection; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952910879     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.491859     Document Type: Article

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