| Article ID: | iaor20031581 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 51 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 259 |
| End Page Number: | 265 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2002 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series D (The Statistician) |
| Authors: | Eggar M.H. |
| Keywords: | sports |
The paper describes a way of testing whether, given a sequence of data, there is a Markov chain of first order that is a likely model to fit it. The test, which was suggested by geometry, is applied to a sequence of moderate length of sporting data, for which a Markov model had once been claimed.