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Soccer matches as experiments: how often does the ‘best’ team win?

G. K. Skinner Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA; CRESST and NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USACorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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G. H. Freeman Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Pages 1087-1095 | Received 10 Mar 2008, Published online: 24 Sep 2009

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