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Collegiate Football Scores and the Negative Binomial Distribution

R. Pollard

Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1973 · Volume 68 · Issue 342

DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1973.10482432

Abstract

The frequency distribution of grouped scores of individual teams in U.S. collegiate football games closely follows the negative binomial distribution.

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