Soccer contains how many goals were scored in the regulation 90
minute periods of World Cup soccer matches from 1990 to 2002. Data are used
in Example 4.4.
A data frame with 575 observations on the following 3 variables:
cumulative goal time in minutes
game in which goals were scored
number of goals scored in regulation period
Chu, S. (2003) “Using Soccer Goals to Motivate the Poisson Process.” INFORMS Transaction on Education, 3, 2: 62-68.
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
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/.
Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. (2008) Probability and Statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
with(data = Soccer, table(Goals))#> Goals #> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 #> 19 49 60 47 32 18 3 3 1