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Assessing competitive balance in the English Premier League for over forty seasons using a stochastic block model
Francesca Basini, Vasiliki Tsouli, Ioannis Ntzoufras +1
Competitive balance is the subject of much interest in the sports analytics literature and beyond. In this paper, we develop a statistical network model based on an extension of th…
Assessing epidemic curves for evidence of superspreading
Joe Meagher, Nial Friel
The expected number of secondary infections arising from each index case, referred to as the reproduction or number, is a vital summary statistic for understanding and managing…
A Bayesian latent allocation model for clustering compositional data with application to the Great Barrier Reef
Luiza Piancastelli, Nial Friel, Julie Vercelloni +2
Relative abundance is a common metric to estimate the composition of species in ecological surveys reflecting patterns of commonness and rarity of biological assemblages. Measureme…
Bayesian Exponential Random Graph Models with Nodal Random Effects
Stephanie Thiemichen, Nial Friel, Alberto Caimo +1
We extend the well-known and widely used Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM) by including nodal random effects to compensate for heterogeneity in the nodes of a network. The Baye…
Bayesian inference for exponential random graph models
Alberto Caimo, Nial Friel
Exponential random graph models are extremely difficult models to handle from a statistical viewpoint, since their normalising constant, which depends on model parameters, is avail…