Ruijian Han

Convergence analysis of a family of Zermelo-type iterations for the Bradley--Terry model

Ruijian Han, Ding Lu, Yiming Xu

Zermelo's algorithm is a classical method for computing the maximum likelihood estimator in the Bradley--Terry (BT) model, but its convergence can be slow in practice. To accelerate computation, Newman introduced a family of Zermelo-type fixed-point iterations parameterized by $α…Read more