European Football Leagues Support among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Approach.

  • Babalola Bayowa Teniola
Keywords: Football, Leagues, multinomial logistic regression

Abstract

This work researches into some popular European football leagues Nigerian students love
watching. This includes : The English Premier League, Serie A, Bundesliga and La-liga. Some
factors that tend to influence their love for these leagues were examined. The data the
research were obtained using a questionnaire completed by some Nigerian undergraduate
students. Multinomial Logistic regression was employed

Author Biography

Babalola Bayowa Teniola

Department of Statistics, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

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Published
2018-12-31