Package: footBayes
Type: Package
Title: Fitting Bayesian and MLE Football Models
Version: 2.1.0
Date: 2025-08-07
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Leonardo",
                      family = "Egidi",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "legidi@units.it"),
               person(given = "Roberto",
                      family = "Macrì Demartino",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Vasilis",
                      family = "Palaskas.",
                      role = "aut"))
Maintainer: Leonardo Egidi <legidi@units.it>
License: GPL-2
Description: 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,
        diagonal-inflated bivariate Poisson, and zero-inflated Skellam.
        It supports both maximum likelihood estimation (MLE, for
        'static' models only) and Bayesian inference. For Bayesian
        methods, it incorporates several techniques: MCMC sampling with
        Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, variational inference using either the
        Pathfinder algorithm or Automatic Differentiation Variational
        Inference (ADVI), and the Laplace approximation. The package
        compiles all the 'CmdStan' models once during installation
        using the 'instantiate' package. 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>.
URL: https://github.com/leoegidi/footbayes
BugReports: https://github.com/leoegidi/footbayes/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
SystemRequirements: CmdStan
        (https://mc-stan.org/users/interfaces/cmdstan), pandoc (>=
        1.12.3), pandoc-citeproc
Depends: R (>= 4.2.0)
Imports: rstan (>= 2.18.1), instantiate, reshape2, ggplot2, ggridges,
        matrixStats, extraDistr, metRology, dplyr, tidyr, numDeriv,
        magrittr, rlang, posterior
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr (>= 1.37), rmarkdown (>= 2.10),
        loo, bayesplot, cmdstanr (>= 0.6.0)
Additional_repositories: https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev/
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
VignetteBuilder: knitr
LazyData: true
BuildManual: yes
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libicu-dev libuv1-dev
Repository: https://leoegidi.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-07 22:32:22 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/leoegidi/footbayes
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 65ee54e48a4ab443fa3f7c929397977934122602
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-06-07 23:12:16 UTC; root
Author: Leonardo Egidi [aut, cre],
  Roberto Macrì Demartino [aut],
  Vasilis Palaskas. [aut]