Validity of the Established Method of Quantifying Home Advantage in Soccer

• Authors: Richard Pollard , Miguel-Ángel Gómez
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-8

Dates

published

1 - 3 - 2015

online

7 - 4 - 2015

Contributors

author

Richard Pollard

• Department of Statistics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA.

author

Miguel-Ángel Gómez

• Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/hukin-2015-0001