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Do Football Teams Have Clusters of Wins, Draws and Defeats?
Author(s) -
Smeeton Nigel
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9639.01241
Subject(s) - football , test (biology) , cluster analysis , mathematics education , psychology , computer science , advertising , artificial intelligence , political science , business , law , paleontology , biology
Summary The issue of whether football teams have good or bad patches during the course of a season is of concern to many supporters. This interest can be harnessed to make the classroom teaching of probability more relevant. In this article, the unfamiliar runs test for multiple outcomes is used to test for possible clustering in wins, draws and defeats in a short series of consecutive matches.