Predicting matches in international football tournaments with random forests

DOI10.1177/1471082X18799934OpenAlexW2898128120WikidataQ129046528 ScholiaQ129046528MaRDI QIDQ5142218

Gunther Schauberger, Andreas Groll

Publication date: 30 December 2020

Published in: Statistical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1471082x18799934

zbMATH Keywords

regularizationPoisson regressionfootballrandom forestsFIFA world cups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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Uses Software

• mboost
• GAMLSS
• glmnet
• ranger
• gamboostLSS
• ordinalForest

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