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Researcher
Christophe Ley
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Results
2023
Data-based ranking and prediction in football
Hans Van Eetvelde
Christophe Ley
Dissertation
2023
2022
Coming Together of Bayesian Inference and Skew Spherical Data
Najmeh Nakhaei Rad
Andriette Bekker
Mohammad Arashi
Christophe Ley
U
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN BIG DATA
2022
How injury prevention programs are being structured and implemented worldwide : an international survey of sports physical therapists
Luciana De Michelis Mendonça
Christophe Ley
Joke Schuermans
Evi Wezenbeek
Erik Witvrouw
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL THERAPY IN SPORT
2022
How injury registration and preseason assessment are being delivered : an international survey of sports physical therapists
Luciana De Michelis Mendonça
Christophe Ley
Joke Schuermans
Evi Wezenbeek
Erik Witvrouw
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL THERAPY IN SPORT
2022
2021
Advances in flexible models and efficient statistical procedures for heavy-tailed and asymmetric data
Slađana Babić
Christophe Ley
David Veredas
Dissertation
2021
Analytic methods in sports : using mathematics and statistics to understand data from baseball, football, basketball, and other sports
Christophe Ley
Bookreview
2021
EM algorithm using overparameterization for the multivariate skew-normal distribution
Toshihiro Abe
Hironori Fujisawa
Takayuki Kawashima
Christophe Ley
A2
Journal Article
in
ECONOMETRICS AND STATISTICS
2021
Elliptical Symmetry Tests in R
Slađana Babić
Christophe Ley
Marko Palangetić
U
Journal Article
in
The R Journal
2021
Evaluating one-shot tournament predictions
Claus Thorn Ekstrøm
Hans Van Eetvelde
Christophe Ley
Ulf Brefeld
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF SPORTS ANALYTICS
2021
Evaluation of directed graph-mapping in complex atrial tachycardias
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Teresa Strisciuglio
Giuseppe Lorenzo
Milad El Haddad
Jan Goedgebeur
Nicolas Van Cleemput
Christophe Ley
Alexander Panfilov
Jan De Pooter
Yves Vandekerckhove
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
JACC-CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
2021
Identification of optimum wind turbine parameters for varying wind climates using a novel month-based turbine performance index
Gaurav Kumar Gugliani
Arnab Sarkar
Christophe Ley
Vasant Matsagar
A1
Journal Article
in
RENEWABLE ENERGY
2021
Machine learning methods in sport injury prediction and prevention : a systematic review
Hans Van Eetvelde
Luciana De Michelis Mendonça
Christophe Ley
Romain Seil
Thomas Tischer
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ORTHOPAEDICS
2021
Motion-control shoes reduce the risk of pronation-related pathologies in recreational runners : a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial
Tine Willems
Christophe Ley
Els Goetghebeur
Daniel Theisen
Laurent Malisoux
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY
2021
On optimal tests for circular reflective symmetry about an unknown central direction
Jose Ameijeiras-Alonso
Christophe Ley
Arthur Pewsey
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
STATISTICAL PAPERS
2021
Probabilistic distances and Bayesian statistics : new insights on and methods for the choice of the prior
Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad
Christophe Ley
Dissertation
2021
Some simple variance bounds from Stein's method
Fraser Daly
Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
ALEA-LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
2021
The probabilistic final standing calculator : a fair stochastic tool to handle abruptly stopped football seasons
Hans Van Eetvelde
Lars Magnus Hvattum
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
ASTA-ADVANCES IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
2021
2020
A new generator for proposing flexible lifetime distributions and its properties
Muhammad Aslam
Christophe Ley
Zawar Hussain
Said Farooq Shah
Zahid Asghar
A1
Journal Article
in
PLOS ONE
2020
Bayesian inference for skew-symmetric distributions
Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad
Christophe Ley
Nicola Loperfido
A1
Journal Article
in
SYMMETRY-BASEL
2020
Data-centric engineering in modern science from the perspective of a statistician, an engineer and a software developer
Christophe Ley
Mike Tibolt
Dirk Fromme
A2
Journal Article
in
DATA-CENTRIC ENGINEERING
2020
Fairness trade-offs in sports timetabling
Dries Goossens
Xiajie Yi
David Van Bulck
Bookchapter
in
Science meets sports : when statistics are more than numbers
2020
On the impact of the choice of the prior in Bayesian statistics
Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad
Christophe Ley
Bookchapter
in
Bayesian inference on complicated data
2020
Regression models for cylindrical data in psychology
Jolien Cremers
Helena J. M. Pennings
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
2020
2019
A hybrid random forest to predict soccer matches in international tournaments
Andreas Groll
Christophe Ley
Gunther Schauberger
Hans Van Eetvelde
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN SPORTS
2019
Comparison and classification of flexible distributions for multivariate skew and heavy-tailed data
Slađana Babić
Christophe Ley
David Veredas
A1
Journal Article
in
SYMMETRY-BASEL
2019
How to classify, detect, and manage univariate and multivariate outliers, with emphasis on pre-registration
Christophe Leys
Marie Delacre
Youri L. Mora
Daniel Lakens
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
2019
Quantification of the impact of priors in Bayesian statistics via Stein's Method
Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS
2019
Ranking methods in soccer
Hans Van Eetvelde
Christophe Ley
Bookchapter
in
Wiley StatsRef : Statistics Reference Online
2019
Ranking soccer teams on the basis of their current strength : a comparison of maximum likelihood approaches
Christophe Ley
Tom Van de Wiele
Hans Van Eetvelde
A1
Journal Article
in
STATISTICAL MODELLING
2019
2018
Analysis of biological and biomedical data with circular statistics
Domien Craens
Christophe Ley
A2
Journal Article
in
BIOSTATISTICS AND BIOMETRICS OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL
2018
Detecting multivariate outliers : use a robust variant of the Mahalanobis distance
Christophe Leys
Olivier Klein
Yves Dominicy
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
2018
Directional distributions
Kanti V Mardia
Christophe Ley
Bookchapter
in
Wiley StatsRef : Statistics Reference Online
2018
Mutual point-winning probabilities (MPW) : a new performance measure for table tennis
Christophe Ley
Yves Dominicy
Wim Bruneel
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
2018
Natural (non-)informative priors for skew-symmetric distributions
Holger Dette
Christophe Ley
Francisco Rubio
A1
Journal Article
in
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS
2018
New methods to assess wind resources in terms of wind speed, load, power and direction
GK Gugliani
A Sarkar
Christophe Ley
S Mandal
A1
Journal Article
in
RENEWABLE ENERGY
2018
What makes data science different? A discussion involving Statistics2.0 and computational sciences
Christophe Ley
Stéphane Bordas
A2
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS
2018
2017
A tractable, parsimonious and flexible model for cylindrical data, with applications
Toshihiro Abe
Christophe Ley
A2
Journal Article
in
ECONOMETRICS AND STATISTICS
2017
Asymptotic properties of QML estimators for VARMA models with time-dependent coefficients
Abdelkamel Alj
Rajae Azrak
Christophe Ley
Guy Mélard
A1
Journal Article
in
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS
2017
Bounds for the asymptotic normality of the maximum likelihood estimator using the Delta method
Andreas Anastasiou
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
ALEA-LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
2017
Distances between nested densities and a measure of the impact of the prior in Bayesian statistics
Christophe Ley
Gesine Reinert
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
2017
Efficient ANOVA for directional data
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
ANNALS OF THE INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS
2017
Skew-rotationally-symmetric distributions and related efficient inferential procedures
Christophe Ley
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
2017
Stein's method for comparison of univariate distributions
Christophe Ley
Gesine Reinert
Yvik Swan
A2
Journal Article
in
PROBABILITY SURVEYS
2017
2016
A general parametric Stein characterization
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS
2016
Parametric Stein operators and variance bounds
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
2016
2015
Depth-based runs tests for bivariate central symmetry
Rainer Dyckerhoff
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
A1
Journal Article
in
ANNALS OF THE INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS
2015
Efficient inference about the tail weight in multivariate Student t distributions
Christophe Ley
Anouk Neven
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE
2015
Flexible modelling in statistics: past, present and future
Christophe Ley
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF THE SFDS
2015
High-dimensional tests for spherical location and spiked covariance
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
2015
On families of distributions with shape parameters: discussion
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
Editorial material
2015
2014
A new concept of quantiles for directional data and the angular Mahalanobis depth
Christophe Ley
Camille Sabbah
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF STATISTICS
2014
Characterizations of GIG laws: a survey
Angelo Efoévi Koudou
Christophe Ley
A2
Journal Article
in
PROBABILITY SURVEYS
2014
Efficiency combined with simplicity : new testing procedures for Generalized Inverse Gaussian models
Angelo Efoevi Koudou
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
TEST
2014
Local powers of optimal one-sample and multi-sample tests for the concentration of Fisher-von Mises-Langevin distributions
Christophe Ley
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW
2014
Maximum likelihood characterization of distributions
Mitia Duerinckx
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
BERNOULLI
2014
Simple optimal tests for circular reflective symmetry about a specified median direction
Christophe Ley
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
STATISTICA SINICA
2014
Skew-symmetric distributions and Fisher information: the double sin of the skew-normal
Marc Hallin
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
BERNOULLI
2014
2013
A stochastic analysis of table tennis
Yves Dominicy
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
2013
Detecting outliers: do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median
Christophe Leys
Christophe Ley
Olivier Klein
Philippe Bernard
Laurent Licata
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
2013
Local Pinsker inequalities via Stein's discrete density approach
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
2013
Optimal R-estimation of a spherical location
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
Baba Thiam
Thomas Verdebout
A1
Journal Article
in
STATISTICA SINICA
2013
Stein's density approach and information inequalities
Christophe Ley
Yvik Swan
A1
Journal Article
in
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS IN PROBABILITY
2013
2012
Maximum likelihood characterization of rotationally symmetric distributions on the sphere
Mitia Duerinckx
Christophe Ley
A2
Journal Article
in
SANKHYA SERIES A
2012
Permutation tests
Marc Hallin
Christophe Ley
Bookchapter
in
Encyclopedia of environmetrics
2012
Runs tests
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
Bookchapter
in
Encyclopedia of environmetrics
2012
Skew distributions
Christophe Ley
Bookchapter
in
Encyclopedia of environmetrics
2012
Skew-symmetric distributions and Fisher information: a tale of two densities
Marc Hallin
Christophe Ley
A1
Journal Article
in
BERNOULLI
2012
2010
Multivariate skewing mechanisms: a unified perspective based on the transformation approach
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
A1
Journal Article
in
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS
2010
On Fisher information matrices and profile log-likelihood functions in generalized skew-elliptical models
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
A2
Journal Article
in
METRON-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STATISTICS
2010
On the singularity of multivariate skew-symmetric models
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
2010
2009
Le Cam optimal tests for symmetry against Ferreira and Steel’s general skewed distributions
Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS
2009