| dc.contributor.author | Sylla, Mohamed Dit Mody | |
| dc.description.abstract | Soccer is considered the most popular sport on earth and applying statistical models to analyze small soccer data has been of a keen interest to modern researchers. Statistical modeling of soccer data also provides guidance and assistance to stakeholders. The goal of this paper is to establish a consistent statistical approach to help in the prediction of future World Cup championships. Ordinary least squares regression is used to develop models which predict goal margin of games and logistic regression is used to develop models which estimate the probability of a team winning the game. Discriminant Analysis was also used to determine which variables significantly influence individual game wins. The Fisher classification procedure allows for interpretability while providing a robust approach to classifying the 32 contestants of the 2014 World Cup using the previous data from 2006 and 2010 World Cup Championships. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU Policy 190.6.2 | |
| dc.title | Prediction of the World Cup Soccer Winner: Using Two Statistical Methods | en_US |
| dc.type | Master's paper | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-11T16:54:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-11T16:54:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25808 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Soccer -- Statistical methods. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | World Cup (Soccer)(2014 : Brazil) | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Soccer -- Forecasting. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Science (MS) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Science and Mathematics | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Statistics | en_US |
| ndsu.program | Statistics | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Magel, Rhonda | |
