SOCCER: World Cup Soccer

In PASWR2: Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition

Description

SOCCER contains how many goals were scored in the regulation 90 minute periods of World Cup soccer matches from 1990 to 2002.

Usage

SOCCER

Format

A data frame with 575 observations on the following 3 variables:

• cgt (cumulative goal time in minutes - total time accumulated when a particular goal is scored)

• game (game in which goals were scored)

• goals (number of goals scored in regulation period)

Details

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 https://www.fifa.com/.

Source

Chu, S. 2003. “Using Soccer Goals to Motivate the Poisson Process.” INFORMS Transaction on Education, 3, 2: 62-68.

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. 2015. Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall / CRC.

Examples

xtabs(~goals, data = SOCCER)

Example output

Loading required package: lattice
Loading required package: ggplot2
goals
 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 
19 49 60 47 32 18  3  3  1 

PASWR2 documentation built on Sept. 5, 2021, 5:44 p.m.