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Re: st: Ranking derived from sports scores
From
Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Ranking derived from sports scores
Date
Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:20:09 -0500
Phil--
I think a better Wikipedia entry point is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
but I maintain that the Glickman refs and discussion I already linked
to are a better starting point.
The pairwise comparison stuff is for another purpose altogether.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A model often used for this type of thing is the Bradley-Terry model:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairwise_comparison
>
> which is also discussed in most texts on categorical data analysis. The
> model can be fit using certain commands in Stata that perform logistic
> regression, e.g.,
>
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/examples/icda/icdast9.htm
>
> (Section 9.6.1). Agresti's book Categorical Data Analysis has a nice
> introductory discussion of the Bradley-Terry model, and the literature is
> full of applications and various extensions that have been developed.
>
>
> -- Phil
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