A birth process model for association football matches

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 523-538

  Dixon, Mark J ^b   Robinson, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Football (soccer); Goal times; Likelihood function; Maximum likelihood; Spread betting; Two dimensional birth process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000216998     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00152     Document Type: Article

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