footBayes

This is the first package allowing for the estimation, visualization and prediction of the most well-known football models: double Poisson, bivariate Poisson, Skellam, student_t. The package allows Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) estimation through the underlying Stan environment and Maximum Likelihood estimation (MLE, for 'static' models only). The model construction relies on the most well-known football references, such as Dixon and Coles (1997) doi:10.1111/1467-9876.00065, Karlis and Ntzoufras (2003) doi:10.1111/1467-9884.00366 and Egidi, Pauli and Torelli (2018) doi:10.1177/1471082X18798414.