{"title":"Scholarship","authors":"Morna McDermott McNulty","doi":"10.4135/9781446211922.n79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446211922.n79","url":null,"abstract":"In the modern era, sports betting is becoming increasingly popular. This is especially true in the realm of soccer (or ‘football’ as it is known outside the United States). As a result, the concept of attempting to predict the outcomes of soccer matches using machine learning has garnered much attention in recent years. In this thesis, I utilize well-known machine learning techniques to predict the outcomes of El Clásico matchups and compare the predictive performance of these techniques. The predictive methods employed for this thesis are random forests using the party package in R and extreme gradient boosting using the xgboost package. The dataset that will be used has been created using historical soccer data that includes match and team statistics.*","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"72 9-10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120903854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Matter of FactsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0005
{"title":"Laboratory Life: Bruno Latour and Rhetoricin Science","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"432 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132692239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Matter of FactsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0023
{"title":"Lost in Citation","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116317172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Matter of FactsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0014
{"title":"Publication and Citation: A Complex System","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124476016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Matter of FactsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0008
{"title":"The Language of Crisis and Controversy, and the Levers of Paradigm Change","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116903903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Matter of FactsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0010
{"title":"Ambiguity of Scientific Terms","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115342552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Matter of FactsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0006
{"title":"Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud? The Place of Hypotheses and Their Falsification","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126071341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Matter of FactsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0007
{"title":"The Birth of Neuroendocrinology and the “Stuff of Legend”: A Case Study of Paradigm Change","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12228.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113323,"journal":{"name":"The Matter of Facts","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133525402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}