Vlastakis, Nikolaos; Dotsis, George; Markellos, Raphael - In: Applied Economics 40 (2008) 1, pp. 111-118
This article explores the linear and nonlinear forecastability of European football match scores using IX2 and Asian Handicap odds data from the English Premier league. To this end, we compare the performance of a Poisson count regression to that of a nonparametric Support Vector Machine (SVM)...