Persistence in sequences of football match results: A Monte Carlo analysis.

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00681-1MaRDI QIDQ1810508zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors John Goddard, Stephen L. Dobson

Publication date 9 June 2003

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00681-1

zbMATH Keywords

Football match resultsMonte Carlo analysisPersistenceSimulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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