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Activity Number: 243 - Statistics in Sports and Beyond
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 : 10:00 AM to 11:50 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Sports
Abstract #318438
Title: Statistical Methods for Learning Dynamic Networks from Player Tracking Data in Soccer
Author(s): Shirley Rojas Salazar* and Erin M Schliep and Christopher Wikle
Companies: University of Missouri and University of Missouri and University of Missouri
Keywords: latent network; semi-Markov; Bayesian
Abstract:

In applications of dynamic network models, the network structure may not be directly observed. Methods to learn the network structure rely on other available data about the actors. In sports, with player tracking data, such data may include the location of the individuals through time. We present an extension to these models to gain inference on the dynamic network, where we are interested in the dynamics in the connectivity between the actors. For this extension we assume the states of connectivity follow a semi-Markov process, which leads to adding the length of time a pair of individuals are in a particular state to the model. We use player tracking data from two segments of a soccer game to illustrate the inference that can be obtained.


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