Re: Football rankings and demographic, economic, etc. factors... again

On Jul 29, 3:16 pm, "Futbolmetrix" <futbolmet...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for replying! :)

- using length of FIFA membership as a proxy for "football culture", better
than my very crude confederation dummies.

...I (an absolute layman!) like confederation dummies more: what does
it mean? :)

- The big improvement in the model is the inclusion of number of foreign
players in the top leagues. But that's really an outcome variable. It would
be like putting the ELO rating on the right hand side of the regression, and
getting an even bigger R-square.

Right! (I overlooked it at a first reading).

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Cheers
milivella
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