Achim Zeileis

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Probabilistic forecasting for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

Winning probabilities for all teams in the FIFA Women's World Cup are obtained using a consensus model based on quoted bookmakers' odds. The favorite is defending World Champion United States, followed by European Champion England, and Spain. 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.

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)