Sports data mining: Predicting results for the college football games

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 35, Issue C, 2014, Pages 710-719

  Leung, Carson K ^a   Joseph, Kyle W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

American football; College football; Data mining; Intelligent systems applications; Knowledge based and intelligent information engineering systems; Prediction; Sports data mining

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SPORTS;

AMERICAN FOOTBALLS; COLLEGE FOOTBALL; INTELLIGENT INFORMATION; SPORTS DATA; SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84924195989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2014.08.153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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