I am looking for hints on how to estimate ratings for competitors
in an ongoing pairwise competition using R... my particular area of
interest being the game of Go, but the idea of identifying ratings
(on a continuous scale) rather than relative rankings seems easily
generalized to other
Have you considered Bradley-Terry models? RSiteSearch(bradley,
functions) just returned 31 hits for me.
Hope this helps.
Spencer Graves
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
I am looking for hints on how to estimate ratings for competitors
in an ongoing pairwise competition using R...
There is a substantial literature on 'statistics in sports' and pairwise
comparisons are of obvious interest. Here is a starting point:
http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/
You might browse the newsletters posted there.
You might enjoy:
Bridging Different Eras in Sports by Scott M.
I would start with elimination-by-aspects models:
?eba
I would read the Tversky 1972 paper (cited on the help page for the
eba() function), which is brilliant.
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
I am looking for hints on how to estimate ratings for competitors
in an ongoing pairwise competition using
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Spencer Graves wrote:
Have you considered Bradley-Terry models? RSiteSearch(bradley,
functions) just returned 31 hits for me.
Hope this helps. Spencer Graves
Thanks to everyone who responded... this was very helpful. I have a bit of
reading and investigation to do.
I think
