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Sometimes one has to be patient, as from another perspective, possibly coming from within our fog of yet unknown, but from someone else thinner fog exploration and digestion, may come a new point of v…

While it will take me a long time to get through all you wrote. From what I gather I think it is good that you are doing this, as at least one effort to bring in the reader's reasoning abilities, and …

as statistics is not exactly a branch of mathematics.. It has some of its own "axioms" as it is about data interface with mathematical models. It even has its own notations to avoid exponential growth…

So it might well be that this was concocted without a probability model at all. And dumped on our mind's laps, as is. Now the question I have. Does this imply anything on the population of individual …

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i am sorry to use one of the good presentations to blast onto the mass of others. just because it was easy to find the bits that might have been close to what I needed. but there, even wikipedia suffe…

> The true magic of the Elo formula comes from the second part, i.e. from the way how the value Ea is calculated. Since 0 ≤ Sa ≤ 1 it follows that it would be nice that likewise 0 ≤ Ea ≤ 1. Elo formul…

> After each match, the Elo rating of player A is updated according to the following formula R’a = Ra + K*(Sa — Ea), where R’a represents the new, updated, Elo rating of the player after the match, Ra…

https://stanislav-stankovic.medium.com/elo-rating-system-6196cc59941e > Ea denotes the expected outcome so I think I got trapped here too. it said mathematical presentation, yet only provides again th…