Achim Zeileis

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Machine learning of a 2022 FIFA World Cup multiverse

Probabilistic forecasts for the 2022 FIFA World Cup are obtained by using a hybrid model that combines data from three advanced statistical models through random forests. The favorite is Brazil, followed by Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, and France. Read more ›

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Highlights

Keynote speaker at useR! 2021, July 5-9, Online: Choosing Color Palettes for Data Visualization [ slides ] [ video ] [ live recording ]
ISI Elected Member from the IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing).
Paper in The Annals of Applied Statistics: Distributional Regression Forests for Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasting in Complex Terrain, doi:10.1214/19-AOAS1247 [ blog ] [ preprint ]
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.
Text book: Applied Econometrics with R
Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis, Springer-Verlag
R Package: AER (with code/data/examples)
Course materials: Slides, handouts, etc.

Conferences

The international workshop on psychometric computing Psychoco 2022 was hosted online on 2022-02-10.
The international R user conference useR! 2022 was hosted online, from 2022-06-21 to 2022-06-23.

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)