[R-sig-ME] Modelling football matches
Ben Bolker
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Thu Dec 15 18:13:40 CET 2022
For a positive-valued variable like distance you might want to
consider a log-linear model (lmer(log(distance) ~ ...) or a Gamma GLMM
(glmer(distance ~ ..., family = Gamma(link="log"))
I believe the full model here would use random slopes ('slopes' in
the broad sense since stage is a categorical variable) of stage
(stage|player) - (stage|game) won't work because each game is only one
stage.
I'm not sure about the definition of 'game_part', but you might want
to add a *fixed* effect of game_part as well as the 'game_part within
game' nested random effect.
There's probably a huge amount of covariate information you could add
(e.g. player's position, player's age), probably other stuff too (random
effect of team?)
On 2022-12-15 10:17 a.m., Jorge Teixeira wrote:
> Hi.
>
> 1) Assuming that most are somewhat familiar with football, and that it is
> world cup time, what do you think of this model to compare differences in
> distance covered between stages (group stage vs final stage)?
>
> lmer(distance ~ stage + (1|player) + (1|game/game_part), data=my_data)
>
> 2) In theory, which random slopes do you think should be added, if any?
>
> Thank you.
>
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