RCLF: Dataset from four Scottish football clubs

In hyper2: The Hyperdirichlet Distribution, Mark 2

Dataset from four Scottish football clubs

Description

Datasets for match results for four Scottish clubs: Rangers, Celtic, Livingston, Falkirk.

Usage

data(RCLF)

Details

These objects refer to results from football matches among four Scottish clubs: Rangers, Celtic, Livingston, Falkirk. A detailed analysis is presented in inst/home_advantage.Rmd, which creates the objects documented here from scratch.

1. Object RCLF3_table is a table of results for the four clubs: home wins, draws, and away wins. RCLF3_lambda_max for the maximum likelihood estimate for \lambda.

2. Object RCLF3 is a hyper3 likelihood function for the table of won games only [that is, excluding draws], using RCLF3_lambda_max for the value of \lambda.

3. Object RCLF3_maxp is its evaluate at the MLE for lambda

The objects are created by inst/home_advantage.Rmd.

Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Source

Data obtained from www.worldfootball.net

Examples

data(RCLF)
RCLF3_table
RCLF3_maxp
RCLF3_lambda_max

loglik(RCLF3_maxp,RCLF3)
equalp.test(RCLF3)

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