Does Relative Age Affect Career Length in North American Professional Sports?

Sports Med Open · 2016 · PMC4713707 · PMID 26807348

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Although there was a trend for the effect, it was not statistically significant for the NBA data, χ 2 (3, n = 535) = 0.77, p = .86, w = .04, and only approached significance for the NFL, χ 2 (3, n = 1924) = 7.03, p = .07, w = .06.

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