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Association Football and Statistical Inference
Author(s) -
Hill I. D.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2347001
Subject(s) - football , inference , statistical inference , association (psychology) , statistics , econometrics , psychology , computer science , mathematics , history , artificial intelligence , archaeology , psychotherapist
Summary A comparison of the final league tables of the 1971–72 football season, with forecasts made by Goal before the season began, shows significant positive correlation. This seems to indicate that football results are not pure chance (although there is obviously a considerable element of chance). The paper questions how the data would have been handled by statisticians who do not approve of significance tests.