Bayesian statistical modelling and analysis in sport
Dal 04/06/2018 ore 14.00 al 08/06/2018 ore 13.00
Villa del Grumello
Via per Cernobbio, 11 - 22100 Como
www.villadelgrumello.it
The school ABS18 (2017 Applied Bayesian Statistics School) , organised by Imati-Cnr in Milan and Dipartimento di scienze statistiche, Università Cattolica, in Milan, in cooperation with Fondazione "Alessandro Volta", Como, aims to present state-of-the-art Bayesian applications, inviting leading experts in their field. Each year a different topic is chosen. The topic chosen for the 2018 school is 'Bayesian statistical modelling and analysis in sport'. The lecturers are Prof. Kerrie Mengersen and Dr. Paul Wu, both from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
The aim of this course is to increase students' ability to develop Bayesian models and computational solutions for real problems in the world of sport. A case study based teaching approach will be taken for the course. Each day, students will be presented with one or two problems posed by Sports Institutes regarding aspects of athlete training for world games. Through participatory problem solving, the students will be challenged to learn about theory, methods and applications of a range of Bayesian models including mixtures, spatio-temporal models, hidden Markov models and experimental design, and computational approaches including Markov chain Monte Carlo and Approximate Bayesian Computation. This hands-on course pays equivalent attention to theory and application, foundation and frontiers in Bayesian modelling and analysis. While the focus of the case studies is on sport, both sporting novices and lovers of sports are welcome, noting that the learning obtained in the course will be widely applicable to many other areas.
OUTLINE:
- Day 1: Lectures on introduction to Bayesian modelling and computation. Presentation of Problem 1: ranking and benchmarking athletes. Discussion and implementation of potential Bayesian hierarchical models and computational solutions. Communication of results.
- Day 2: Lectures on foundational Bayesian theory. Presentation of Problem 3: modelling swimmers' effective work per stroke. Discussion and implementation of potential Bayesian high dimensional regression models and computational solutions. Communication of results. Presentation of Problem 4: modelling cyclists' wearable data. Discussion and implementation of potential (marked) time series models and computational solutions. Communication of results.
- Day 3: Lectures on foundational Bayesian computation. Presentation of Problem 5: optimising athletes' resilience. Discussion and implementation of potential Bayesian mixture models to relate performance, fatigue and recovery. Communication of results.
- Day 4: Lectures on foundational Bayesian computation and frontier Bayesian theory. Presentation of Problem 6: optimal sampling strategies. Discussion and implementation of potential Bayesian experimental design methods for acquiring data from athletes. Presentation of Problem 7: using video data to compare planned and set play in team sports. Discussion and implementation of potential Bayesian spatio-temporal models. Communication of results.
- Day 5: Lectures on frontier Bayesian computation. Finalisation of problems 1-7. Extensions. Concluding remarks
Organizzato da:
Cnr Imati (sede di Milano)
Università Cattolica, Milano
Fondazione "Alessandro Volta", Como
Referente organizzativo:
Fabrizio Ruggeri
CNR - Istituto di matematica applicata e tecnologie informatiche "Enrico Magenes"
Via Bassini 15
20133 Milano
fabrizio@mi.imati.cnr.it
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