Prediction and retrospective analysis of soccer matches in a league

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 399-418

  Rue, Håvard ^a   Salvesen, Øyvind ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dynamic models; Generalized linear models; Graphical models; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Prediction of soccer matches

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001134174     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00243     Document Type: Article

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