Predictions for National Football League games via linear-model methodology

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 75, Issue 371, 1980, Pages 516-524

  Harville, David ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Football predictions; Football ratings; Maximum likelihood; Mixed linear models; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949164445     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1980.10477504     Document Type: Article

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