I have a training dataset which contains statistics of football players for the
year 2009, and their ranks for the year 2010. For example:
Player
No. of goals
No. of matches
Age
Rank (in 2010)
A
5
1
35
1
B
2
4
23
2
C
1
7
26
3
D
6
4
52
5
E
3
2
45
4
The above ranks have been calculated on the basis of a 'score' (which is
unknown) given to each player, which is a function of the 3 variables. It could
be something like:Score = (No. of goals/No. of matches) - Age^(1/2)After you
arrange the scores in descending order, you get the ranks. The scores are not
known and neither is the formula for calculating it. Only the ranks are given.
Now, I have statistics for football players for the year 2013, and I have to
predict their ranks for the year 2014, which should give the same result if the
formula used in 2010 were used. Calculating their scores is not necessary and
even finding out the formula is not the objective. The objective is just to
predict their ranks. But, finding the exact formula for calculating scores will
be a bonus.
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:20:08 -0600
Subject: Re: [R] Regression model for predicting ranks of the dependent variable
From: 538...@gmail.com
To: saumya.gu...@outlook.com
CC: r-help@r-project.org
What question (or questions) are you trying to answer? Any advice we may give
will depend on what you are trying to accomplish.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Saumya Gupta <saumya.gu...@outlook.com> wrote:
I have a dataset which has several predictor variables and a dependent
variable, "score" (which is numeric). The score for each row is calculated
using a formula which uses some of the predictor variables. But, the "score"
figures are not explicitly given in the dataset. The scores are only arranged
in ascending order, and the ranks of the numbers are given (like 1, 2, 3, 4,
etc.; rank 1 means that the particular row had the highest score, 2 means it
had the second highest score and so on). So, if the data has 100 rows, the
output has ranks from 1 to 100.
I don't think it would be proper to treat the output column as a numeric one,
since it is an ordinal variable, and the distance (difference in scores)
between ranks 1 and 2 may not be the same as that between ranks 2 and 3.
However, most R regression models for ordinal regression are made for output
such as (high, medium, low), where each level of the output does not
necessarily correspond to a unique row. In my case, each output (rank)
corresponds to a unique row.
So please suggest me what models I could use for this problem. Will treating
the output as numeric instead of ordinal be a reasonable approximation? Or will
the usual models for ordinal regression work on this dataset as well?
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