{"id":481321,"date":"2018-06-01T05:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5349498c2971f218eb968afc380f8343"},"modified":"2018-06-01T05:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:40:01","slug":"statisticians-say-brazil-will-play-germany-in-the-fifa-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=481321","title":{"rendered":"Statisticians say Brazil will play Germany in the FIFA World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The favorites for this year&#8217;s World Cup title are Brazil and Germany. The two teams are almost on a par with their chances of winning, as statisticians around Achim Zeileis from the University of Innsbruck show. With their statistical model based on bookmakers&#8217; odds, the researchers have successfully predicted several tournaments in the past, among them the correct world champion Spain in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and three out of four semi-finalists in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The favorites for this year&#8217;s World Cup title are Brazil and Germany. The two teams are almost on a par with their chances of winning, as statisticians around Achim Zeileis from the University of Innsbruck show. With their statistical model based on bo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481322,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481321\/revisions\/481322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}