Probabilistic transitivity in sports

DOI10.1016/J.COR.2019.104765MaRDI QIDQ2329722zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Tiwisina, Philipp Külpmann

Publication date 18 October 2019

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2901643

zbMATH Keywords

geometric optimizationOR in sportsrankingstochastic transitivitytrinomial distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical ranking and selection procedures (62F07) Applications of statistics (62P99) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90)

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