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Bayesian versus Frequentist solutions to the Monty Hall problem

Nien Xiang

Apr 15, 20227 min read

Bayesian versus Frequentist solutions to the Monty Hall problem

This post presents the use of both Bayesian and frequentist approaches to solve the famous Monty Hall problem.

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Tokyo Olympics: Analysis of the 1500m Event's Pacing Strategy using the concept of Critical Speed

Nien Xiang

Aug 9, 20218 min read

Tokyo Olympics: Analysis of the 1500m Event's Pacing Strategy using the concept of Critical Speed

This blog post employs the concept of critical speed to analyse the pacing strategy in the 1500m event finals at the Tokyo Olympics.

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All about that Bayes: Why individuals appraise similar evidence differently?

Nien Xiang

Mar 4, 20216 min read

All about that Bayes: Why individuals appraise similar evidence differently?

This article presents how Bayesian inference explains why different individuals appraise similar evidence differently.

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Radar Charts in R: Visualising playing styles of EPL football teams

Nien Xiang

Nov 29, 20204 min read

Radar Charts in R: Visualising playing styles of EPL football teams

This post visualises the playing styles of EPL football teams with the use of radar charts.

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The end spurt in marathon running: A universal behaviour?

Nien Xiang

Jul 29, 20204 min read

The end spurt in marathon running: A universal behaviour?

This post examines the prevalence of the end spurt in marathon running based on data from Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2019.

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Liverpool's success: Lucky or worthy winners?

Nien Xiang

Jul 2, 20204 min read

Liverpool's success: Lucky or worthy winners?

This post examines whether Liverpool's title winning success is attributed to luck or genuine performance based on the expected goal metric.

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Spatial visualisation with ggmap: Covid-19 clusters in Singapore

Nien Xiang

May 30, 20203 min read

Spatial visualisation with ggmap: Covid-19 clusters in Singapore

This article documents the visualisation of Singapore's Covid-19 clusters on the map using R programming.

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Pace variation in Marathon running: Analysing data from Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2019

Nien Xiang

May 16, 20204 min read

Pace variation in Marathon running: Analysing data from Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2019

This post examines the whether variation in marathon running pace differs among runners of different performance levels.

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Web scraping Goodreads with BeautifulSoup: Popular running books

Nien Xiang

May 1, 20205 min read

Web scraping Goodreads with BeautifulSoup: Popular running books

This post documents the use of Python to scrape popular running books from Goodreads using the BeautifulSoup package.

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Nien Xiang

Apr 25, 20202 min read

Lactate Paradox

This post writes about the phenomenon of reduced blood lactate concentration found with increasing altitude.

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Nien Xiang

Mar 24, 20202 min read

Animated Data Visualisation of Covid-19

This article visualises how the covid-19 pandemic has evolved in certain countries using animated line plots on R.

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Web Scraping and Data Visualising with R: EPL 19/20 Goal Stats

Nien Xiang

Feb 20, 20204 min read

Web Scraping and Data Visualising with R: EPL 19/20 Goal Stats

This article documents a walk-through on web scraping data on English Premier League teams from Wikipedia and visualise the data using R.

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Is the English Premier League getting more competitive?

Nien Xiang

Feb 9, 20203 min read

Is the English Premier League getting more competitive?

This post examines and compares the competitiveness of different English Premier League seasons based on coefficient of variation metric.

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Can possession predict wins in football?

Nien Xiang

Aug 8, 20194 min read

Can possession predict wins in football?

This post explores the use of logistic regression to examine whether ball possession can predict wins in football, with data from EPL 18/19.

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Nien Xiang

Aug 3, 20193 min read

Your perception is your reality

This post writes about the importance of studying perception in sport science domain, especially in the context of regulation of exercise.

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