Analysis of a double Poisson model for predicting football results in Euro 2020.

First developed in 1982, the double Poisson model, where goals scored by each team are assumed to be Poisson distributed with a mean depending on attacking and defensive strengths, remains a popular choice for predicting football scores, despite the multitude of newer methods that have been develope...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Matthew J Penn, Christl A Donnelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268511