Data Science

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.