Predicting competitions by combining conditional logistic regression and subjective Bayes: an Academy Awards case study

DOI10.1214/21-AOAS1464zbMATH Open1498.62344arXiv2001.00878OpenAlexW4200546438MaRDI QIDQ2078331FDOQ2078331

Christopher T. Franck, Christopher E. Wilson

Publication date: 28 February 2022

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Predicting the outcome of elections, sporting events, entertainment awards, and other competitions has long captured the human imagination. Such prediction is growing in sophistication in these areas, especially in the rapidly growing field of data-driven journalism intended for a general audience as the availability of historical information rapidly balloons. Providing statistical methodology to probabilistically predict competition outcomes faces two main challenges. First, a suitably general modeling approach is necessary to assign probabilities to competitors. Second, the modeling framework must be able to accommodate expert opinion, which is usually available but difficult to fully encapsulate in typical data sets. We overcome these challenges with a combined conditional logistic regression/subjective Bayes approach. To illustrate the method, we re-analyze data from a recent Time.com piece in which the authors attempted to predict the 2019 Best Picture Academy Award winner using standard logistic regression. Towards engaging and educating a broad readership, we discuss strategies to deploy the proposed method via an online application.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00878

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zbMATH Keywords

conditional logistic regressionprior elicitationsubjective BayesAcademy Awards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Generalized linear models (logistic models) (62J12) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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Cited In (1)

• Identifying winners of competitive events: a SVM-based classification model for horserace prediction

Uses Software

• glmnet

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