A Statistical Analysis of Association Football Attendances

Citation

Hart RA, Hutton J & Sharot T (1975) A Statistical Analysis of Association Football Attendances. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C Applied Statistics, 24 (1), pp. 17-27. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=15&sid=9d167713-8b23-472a-bead-52f71ed4a57d%40sessionmgr14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=8635726

Abstract
Little quantitative work has so far appeared in the growing literature on professional sports. In this paper a model is constructed and estimated for the attendances of four English First Division dubs. The possibility of a common law-like relationship is examined and account is taken of common cross-sectional influences in order to raise the efficiency of the estimates.

Keywords
Football attendance; Regression model; Seemingly unrelated least squares

Journal
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C Applied Statistics: Volume 24, Issue 1