A new approach to study the relative age effect with the use of additive logistic regression models: A case of study of FIFA football tournaments (1908-2012)

• Miguel Saavedra-García ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel Saavedra-García, Marcos Matabuena

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: miguel.saavedra@udc.es

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias del Deporte (INCIDE). Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6248-9188

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• Marcos Matabuena ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel Saavedra-García, Marcos Matabuena

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Antonio Montero-Seoane ,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias del Deporte (INCIDE). Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

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• Juan J Fernández-Romero

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias del Deporte (INCIDE). Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

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