A Generalized Bradley-Terry Model: From Group Competition to Individual Skill
Abstract
The Bradley-Terry model for paired comparison has been popular in many areas. We propose a generalized version in which paired individual comparisons are extended to paired team comparisons. We introduce a simple algorithm with convergence proofs to solve the model and obtain individual skill. A useful application to multi-class probability estimates using error-correcting codes is demonstrated.
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Huang et al. "A Generalized Bradley-Terry Model: From Group Competition to Individual Skill." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004.Markdown
[Huang et al. "A Generalized Bradley-Terry Model: From Group Competition to Individual Skill." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2004/huang2004neurips-generalized/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{huang2004neurips-generalized,
title = {{A Generalized Bradley-Terry Model: From Group Competition to Individual Skill}},
author = {Huang, Tzu-kuo and Lin, Chih-jen and Weng, Ruby C.},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {2004},
pages = {601-608},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2004/huang2004neurips-generalized/}
}