TrueSkill, Technical Report

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PLOS One

The first skill estimator was developed by Arpad Elo, adopted by the World Chess Federations around 1970. TrueSkill is just the bayesian multiplayer version of Elo model, published by Microsoft in 2007. In this technical report I derive, step by step, the analytical solution of the model.

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Gustavo Landfried
Bayesian Data Scientist

Empirical knowledge emerges as life does