Javelin dataset

Results from the men's javelin, 2020 Summer Olympics.

  • javelin_table, a dataframe in the form of an “attempts table”, detailing the throw distances of eight competitors (diacritics have been removed) for each of six throws

  • javelin1 and javelin2 Support functions corresponding to the weighted Plackett-Luce likelihood. The suffix “1” means that no-throws are counted as losing attempts; suffix “2” means that no-throws are ignored.

  • javelin1_maxp and javelin2_maxp are the corresponding maximum likelihood estimates for the players' strengths

  • javelin_vector is a named vector with elements being the throw distances and names being the thrower

data(javelin)

Format

As detailed above

Details

These objects can be generated by running script inst/javelin.Rmd, which includes some further discussion and technical documentation, and creates file javelin.rda which resides in the data/ directory.

Examples

pie(javelin1_maxp)