SOCCER contains how many goals were scored in the regulation 90 minute periods of World Cup soccer matches from 1990 to 2002.

SOCCER

Format

A data frame with 575 observations on the following 3 variables:

  • cgt (cumulative goal time in minutes - total time accumulated when a particular goal is scored)

  • game (game in which goals were scored)

  • goals (number of goals scored in regulation period)

Source

Chu, S. 2003. “Using Soccer Goals to Motivate the Poisson Process.” INFORMS Transaction on Education, 3, 2: 62-68.

Details

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 https://www.fifa.com/.

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. 2015. Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall / CRC.

Examples

xtabs(~goals, data = SOCCER)
#> goals
#>  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 
#> 19 49 60 47 32 18  3  3  1