Achim Zeileis

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Machine learning meets reality: Forecast evaluation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup

After all 72 matches of the group stage in the 2026 FIFA World Cup our probabilistic forecasts are evaluated, revealing what the machine learning algorithm predicted well and where it struggled. Read more ›

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Highlights

Remembering Fritz Leisch: [ Paper (R Journal) ] [ Special Issue (AJS) ] [ Symposium (BOKU) ] [ slides 1 ] [ slides 2 ]
Keynote speaker at Tag der Lehre 2023, November 9, Technische Hochschule Augsburg: Prüfungsformate in Großlehrveranstaltungen: Ideen, Infrastruktur, Erfahrungen [ slides ] [ video ]
Keynote speaker at useR! 2021, July 5-9, Online: Choosing Color Palettes for Data Visualization [ slides ] [ video ] [ live recording ]
Included in Google Scholar’s Classic Papers 2006: Unbiased Recursive Partitioning: A Conditional Inference Framework. doi:10.1198/106186006X133933 [ pdf ]

Resources

Journal of Statistical Software: Free and open-access journal publishing statistical software (+ manuscripts).
R/exams: A one-for-all exams generator of exams, quizzes, self tests in standalone documents, learning management systems, live voting.

Books

Mathematik für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Birgit Rudloff & Achim Zeileis
Independently published
Book: Online & Print
Resources: Videos, slides, training exercises, etc.
Applied Econometrics with R
Christian Kleiber & Achim Zeileis
Springer-Verlag
R Package: AER (with code/data/examples)
Course materials: Slides, handouts, etc.

12:45, restate my assumptions:

Mathematics is the language of nature.

Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers

If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge.

Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
Pi (1998)