2 papers
math.ST2025
The many routes to the ubiquitous Bradley-Terry model
Ian Hamilton, Nick Tawn, David Firth
The rating of items based on pairwise comparisons has been a topic of statistical investigation for many decades. Numerous approaches have been proposed. One of the best known is t…
stat.ME2024
Tractable Ridge Regression for Paired Comparisons
Cristiano Varin, David Firth
Paired comparison models, such as Bradley-Terry and Thurstone-Mosteller, are commonly used to estimate relative strengths of pairwise compared items in tournament-style data. We di…