Essays about: "betfair"

Found 2 essays containing the word betfair.

  1. 1. A Bayesian approach to predict the number of soccer goals : Modeling with Bayesian Negative Binomial regression

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statistik och maskininlärning

    Author : JOakim Bäcklund; Johdet Nils; [2018]
    Keywords : Bayesian regression; Negative Binomial regression; Poisson regression; Soccer goals; odds;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on a well-known topic in sports betting, predicting the number of goals in soccer games.The data set used comes from the top English soccer league: Premier League, and consists of games played in the seasons 2015/16 to 2017/18. READ MORE

  3. 2. The More the Merrier? : A Study Measuring Relative Efficiency of Two Prediction Markets

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Carl Anners; Stefan Saarm; [2015]
    Keywords : prediction markets; football; betfair;

    Abstract : Our aim of this paper was to create a method for comparing the overall relative efficiency of a prediction market for the English football league Premier League and a prediction market for the Swedish football league Allsvenskan. The purpose of this was to see how the overall turnover of a prediction market affects the efficiency of it. READ MORE