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Sporting Mega Analysis

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The sporting mega events that were chosen for our analysis was the Summer and Winter Olympics, the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games. These 3 events are the largest mega events in the world, and are excellent representations of sporting mega events as a whole. We wanted to go as far back as our data indexes allowed us to go, which was the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, so we made that our starting point. Our goal was to look at all of the bids made for the mega events, and look at a selection of variables influence on their chances of winning. We used data from the year the countries hosted the events (excluding the data used for future events) in order to go as far back as the indexes would allow us. All together we were able to …show more content…

For every observation for events that have not yet occurred such as future Olympics and World Cup’s that has finished the bidding process and selected a host, we had to extrapolate the data from 2016 the best we could. Additionally, for the Freedom of Press ranking, it only went back to 2002, so we had to use the data for 2002 in order to fill in the events that occurred from 1996-2001. Both of these could affect the legitimacy of this study in the future, but for all extrapolations we doubt they will be that much different from our figures.
Independent variables and the tendencies in their descriptive statistics were examined first. Then, we performed a binary logistic regression to assess the combined effects of the independent variables on bid success, and determine what factors are ultimately the most influential on mega event bidding success. We decided to split the descriptive statistics and logistic regression to two separate time periods using the year 2008 as our

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