Tony Corke
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#rstats, maths, science, quirky stuff, and Aussie Rules football. @matterofstats on Twitter "Your data is not required to follow a well-defined distribution"
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MoS post R21 Team Dashboard is now up www.matterofstats.com/mafl-team-dashboards/2024/3/17/matterofstats-2026-team-dashboard-for-round-21
MatterOfStats 2026 : Team Dashboard for Round 21 — Matter of Stats
Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which still suggests that the Saints and Giants are unlucky to not be in the Top 10, and that the Dogs and Blues are perhaps lucky to be there. ...
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Fremantle have conceded fewer than 5 scoring shots per quarter so far this season
MoS R21 Results www.matterofstats.com/mafl-wagers-and-tips/round-21-and-slide
2026 - Round 21 Results - And Slide ... — Matter of Stats
Eight of the nine early-week favourites won this week, which meant that contrarian tipping was mostly punished and that Bookie Knows Best joined ENS_Linear atop the Head-to-Head Tipsters’ Leaderboard,...
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Notice: today’s lecture by Professor Schrodinger might have been cancelled. Please check with course coordinator Kat Observada
Even forecasters whose margin forecasts have a +0.95 correlation can have MAEs that differ by more than 1 point per game
We're happy to announce our new #rstats package: lorax. If you fit tree-based models, lorax enables conversion to the party package's format (for making nice tree diagrams) and has methods to compute which features were used, the number of terminal nodes, etc. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...
Introducing lorax: Speaking for the Tree-Based Models
lorax is a new R package that characterizes fitted tree- and rule-based models: extract their decision rules, see which predictors they actually use, and convert trees for plotting with partykit.
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Importance of remaining men's AFL home and away games
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Although the relationship is very noisy, more experienced players tend to register higher Rating Points in a game
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Who knew they'd use ChatGPT to compose the text AND the sound of the national alert?
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Marco Almada@marcoalmada.com · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: Station Seven Eleven
MoS post R20 Team Dashboard is up www.matterofstats.com/mafl-team-dashboards/2024/3/17/matterofstats-2026-team-dashboard-for-round-20
MatterOfStats 2026 : Team Dashboard for Round 20 — Matter of Stats
Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which still suggests that GWS are unlucky to not be in the Top 10, and that the Dogs are perhaps lucky to be there. The metrics currently most...
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MoS Results for R20 www.matterofstats.com/mafl-wagers-and-tips/round-20-it-started-well
2026 - Round 20 Results - It Started Well — Matter of Stats
Seven of the nine early-week favourites won this week, but there was enough contrarian tipping for five of the Head-to-Head Tipsters this week to record eight, including ENS_Linear, who is now the out...
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If a monk tells his boss about what's been happening at the monastery is that an example of updating a prior?
If a monk tells his boss about what's been happening at the monastery is that an example of updating a prior?
