Link to the project report and presentation.
In this project, we rank the relative skills of 24 poker players over 134 poker games. For each game, there is a ranking for each participant.
- Plackett-Luce model for multiple players as a generalization of the Bradley-Terry model for two players
- Elicit prior, perform posterior inference with MCMC, and estimate the Bayes factor with the Bridge estimator
- In particular, we want to understand whether the performance of the players depends on two covariates:
seniority (age)andskill