On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the UKSoccer data set which pertains to UK Soccer Scores. The UKSoccer data set is found in the vcd R package. You can load the UKSoccer data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("UKSoccer"). This will load the data into a variable called UKSoccer. If R says the UKSoccer data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("vcd") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the UKSoccer R data set. The size of this file is about 84 bytes.

UK Soccer Scores

Description

Data from Lee (1997), on the goals scored by Home and Away teams in the Premier Football League, 1995/6 season.

Usage

data("UKSoccer")

Format

A 2-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating the number of goals scored in 380 games. The variables and their levels are as follows:

R project statistics dataset table

No	Name	Levels
1	Home	0, 1, ..., 4
2	Away	0, 1, ..., 4

Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, page 27.

References

A. J. Lee (1997), Modelling scores in the Premier League: Is Manchester United really the best?, Chance, 10(1), 15–19.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

See Also

Bundesliga

Examples

data("UKSoccer")
mosaic(UKSoccer, gp = shading_max, main = "UK Soccer Scores")

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.