Sometimes it feels a bit silly when a simple statistical model has a fancy-sounding name. But it also feels good to drop the following in casual conversation: “Ah, then I recommend a Plackett-Luce model, a straightforward generalization of the Bradley–Terry model, you know”, when a friend wonders how they could model their, say, pinball championship dataset. Incidentally, in this post we’re going to model the result of the IFPA 18 World Pinball Championship using a Plackett-Luce model, implemented in Stan as a generalization of the Bradley–Terry model, you know.
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