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Count data - a tale of Poisson and predicting football results

Vernon Gayle

16-09-2020

Professor Vernon Gayle (University of Edinburgh) introduces the Poisson distribution. A sporting example is used to exemplify the concept of expected outcomes. Some social science examples are provided and some alternative models for count data are introduced. For more resources related to this video visit https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/