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most citedHome advantage and crowd attendance: Evidence from rugby during the Covid 19 pandemic

5 citations · 5 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AI2026

From Type to Token: Petri Nets, Individual Token Philosophy, and Individualized Causal Effects

Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé, Gustavo Bodanza

Structural Causal Models and Bayesian Networks are the dominant framework for representing causal relations. They are fundamentally type-level formalisms since their estimands, Ave…

cs.CR2026

Watermarking: from Impossibility to Auditable Compliance

Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé, Hugo Acciarri

Article 50 (2) of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act requires providers of generative systems to make synthetic outputs machine-readable and detectable, while qualifying the effect…

econ.EM2026

The Best Are Always the Best: COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency and the Dispersion of Olympic Medal Outcomes

Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé

We ask whether COVID-19 lockdown stringency altered national Olympic performance between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, using the Oxford Stringency Index and the 99 countries that won a…

econ.EM2026

Regional advantage in rugby sevens: Is there a home effect when nobody is home?

Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé +1

We study the existence of a \emph{Regional Differential} in rugby sevens: whether, in tournaments where no competing team enjoys formal home status, some national sides systematica…

stat.ME2026

Local conformal prediction for individual causal effects

Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohme, Fernando Tohmé

Standard CATE estimators become inadequate under strong treatment-effect heterogeneity: confidence intervals for conditional means need not cover individual counterfactual effects.…

econ.EM2026

Testing the Exclusion Restriction with a Single Instrument: Identification through Fourth-Order Cumulants under Latent Confounding

Fernando Delbianco

With a single instrument the exclusion restriction is untestable from second moments, and adding the instrument to the structural equation fails because the regressor is endogenous…

econ.GN2023

Visitors Out! The Absence of Away Team Supporters as a Source of Home Advantage in Football

Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé

We seek to gain more insight into the effect of the crowds on the Home Advantage by analyzing the particular case of Argentinean football (also known as soccer), where for more tha…

stat.ME2023

Individualized Conformal

Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé

The problem of individualized prediction can be addressed using variants of conformal prediction, obtaining the intervals to which the actual values of the variables of interest be…

econ.EM2022

An Assessment Tool for Academic Research Managers in the Third World

Fernando Delbianco, Andres Fioriti, Fernando Tohmé

The academic evaluation of the publication record of researchers is relevant for identifying talented candidates for promotion and funding. A key tool for this is the use of the in…

stat.AP2021

The Relative Importance of Ability, Luck and Motivation in Team Sports: a Bayesian Model of Performance in the English Rugby Premiership

Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé

Results in contact sports like Rugby are mainly interpreted in terms of the ability and/or luck of teams. But this neglects the important role of the {\em motivation} of players, r…

econ.GN2021★ 5 cited

Home advantage and crowd attendance: Evidence from rugby during the Covid 19 pandemic

Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé

The COVID-19 pandemic forced almost all professional and amateur sports to be played without attending crowds. Thus, it induced a large-scale natural experiment on the impact of so…

econ.TH2021

A Graph-based Similarity Function for CBDT: Acquiring and Using New Information

Federico E. Contiggiani, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé

One of the consequences of persistent technological change is that it force individuals to make decisions under extreme uncertainty. This means that traditional decision-making fra…

cs.IR2020

Assessing the behavior and performance of a supervised term-weighting technique for topic-based retrieval

Mariano Maisonnave, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé +1

This article analyses and evaluates FDD\b{eta}, a supervised term-weighting scheme that can be applied for query-term selection in topic-based retrieval. FDD\b{eta} weights terms b…

cs.CL2020

Detecting Ongoing Events Using Contextual Word and Sentence Embeddings

Mariano Maisonnave, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé +2

This paper introduces the Ongoing Event Detection (OED) task, which is a specific Event Detection task where the goal is to detect ongoing event mentions only, as opposed to histor…

econ.GN2020

The Impact of Birth Order on Behavior in Contact Team Sports: the Evidence of Rugby Teams in Argentina

Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé

Several studies have shown that birth order and the sex of siblings may have an influence on individual behavioral traits. In particular, it has been found that second brothers (of…

physics.soc-ph2019

Effort of rugby teams according to the bonus point system: a theoretical and empirical analysis

Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Alejandro Neme +1

Using a simple game-theoretical model of contests, we compare the effort exerted by rugby teams under three different point systems used in tournaments around the world. The scorin…