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title: "Predictive Models of English Premier League Goal Scoring"
author: "An Honors Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduating with Departmental Honors in Mathematics"
date: "2020-09-08T14:04:50Z"
tags: [Predictive Model]
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Predictive Models of English Premier League Goal Scoring [...] The English Premier League is well-known for being not only one of the most-watched football leagues in the world but also one of the toughest competitions to predict. The purpose of this research project was to look at goal scoring data of the English Premier League and use statistical modeling to predict Premier League match results. This research will attempt to determine whether goal scoring in the Premier League can be modeled by a Poisson process, specifically, the relationships between the number of goals and the Poisson ...
