Authors and citation

Authors

  • Leonardo Egidi, author and maintainer. University of Trieste.
  • Roberto Macrì Demartino, author. University of Trieste.
  • Vasilis Palaskas, author.

Citation

If you use footBayes in your work, please cite the package:

Egidi L., Macrì Demartino R. and Palaskas V. (2026). footBayes: Fitting Bayesian and MLE Football Models. R package version 2.1.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=footBayes

@Manual{footBayes,
  title  = {footBayes: Fitting Bayesian and MLE Football Models},
  author = {Leonardo Egidi and Roberto {Macr\`i Demartino} and Vasilis Palaskas},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 2.1.0},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=footBayes},
}

The models implemented in the package are described in:

Egidi L., Pauli F. and Torelli N. (2018). Combining historical data and bookmakers’ odds in modelling football scores. Statistical Modelling, 18(5-6), 436–459. doi:10.1177/1471082X18798414

Macrì Demartino R., Egidi L. and Torelli N. (2024). Alternative ranking measures to predict international football results. Computational Statistics.

Macrì Demartino R., Egidi L. and Torelli N. (2026). Bayesian weighted discrete-time dynamic models for association football prediction. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, qlag032. doi:10.1093/jrsssc/qlag032