Soccer {PASWR} | R Documentation |
Soccer
contains how many goals were scored in the regulation
90 minute periods of World Cup soccer matches from 1990 to 2002. Data
are used in Example 4.4.
Soccer
A data frame with 575 observations on the following 3 variables:
CGT
Game
Goals
The World Cup is played once every four years. National teams from all
over the world compete. In 2002 and in 1998, thirty-six teams were
invited; whereas, in 1994 and in 1990, only 24 teams participated. The
data frame Soccer
contains three columns: CGT
, Game
,
and Goals
. All of the information contained in Soccer
is
indirectly available from the FIFA World Cup website, located at
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/.
Chu, S. (2003) “Using Soccer Goals to Motivate the Poisson Process.” INFORMS Transaction on Education, 3, 2: 62-68.
Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. (2008) Probability and Statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
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