When Europe’s best national football teams kick off the UEFA EURO 2016 on June 10th, host France and World Cup Champion Germany will, mathematically speaking, also be the odds-on favorites as statisticians headed by Achim Zeileis from the University of Innsbruck show. By applying their statistical model based on bookmakers’ odds, the researchers previously correctly predicted the 2008 EURO final, Spain as the 2010 FIFA World Cup Champion and the 2012 EURO Champion, and, two years ago, three out of four FIFA World Cup semifinalists.
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