Posts tagged sports
Model building and expansion for golf putting
- 02 April 2022
- how-to, intermediate
This uses and closely follows the case study from Andrew Gelman, written in Stan. There are some new visualizations and we steered away from using improper priors, but much credit to him and to the Stan group for the wonderful case study and software.
A Hierarchical model for Rugby prediction
- 19 March 2022
- how-to, intermediate
In this example, we’re going to reproduce the first model described in Baio and Blangiardo [2010] using PyMC. Then show how to sample from the posterior predictive to simulate championship outcomes from the scored goals which are the modeled quantities.