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Fans, Football and Federal Elections: A Real‐World Example of Statistics
Author(s) -
Cramer Kenneth M.,
Jackson Dennis L.
Publication year - 2006
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/j.1467-9639.2006.00243.x
Subject(s) - football , franchise , statistics , political science , relation (database) , advertising , econometrics , economics , mathematics , computer science , law , business , marketing , database
Summary This article evaluates and explores the correlation (+0.892) between the United States federal election winner and the most recent Washington Redskin home‐game winner, a relation perfectly linked for 17 of 18 elections since franchise inception in 1936.