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The Skellam distribution is a discrete distribution that describes the difference between two independent Poisson distributions with possibly different parameters.

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What probability distribution would be suitable for modelling scores in a basketball match?

In football (not American football but what Americans call soccer), it is pretty clear: we may consider the difference of two independent Poisson variables. In basketball, in theory, we could increase …
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