A Bayesian approach to predict the number of soccer goals : Modeling with Bayesian Negative Binomial regression

This thesis focuses on a well-known topic in sports betting, predicting the number of goals in soccer games.The data set used comes from the top English soccer league: Premier League, and consists of games played in the seasons 2015/16 to 2017/18.This thesis approaches the prediction with the auxili...

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Main Authors: Bäcklund, JOakim, Nils, Johdet
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Linköpings universitet, Statistik och maskininlärning 2018
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-149028