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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A Bayesian approach to predict the number of soccer goals : Modeling with Bayesian Negative Binomial regression

Bäcklund, JOakim, Nils, Johdet January 2018 (has links)
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 auxiliary support of the odds from the betting exchange Betfair. The purpose is to find a model that can create an accurate goal distribution. %The other purpose is to investigate whether Negative binomial distribution regressionThe methods used are Bayesian Negative Binomial regression and Bayesian Poisson regression. The results conclude that the Poisson regression is the better model because of the presence of underdispersion.We argue that the methods can be used to compare different sportsbooks accuracies, and may help creating better models.

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