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%global _empty_manifest_terminate_build 0
Name: python-winning
Version: 1.0.3
Release: 1
Summary: Fast ability inference from contest winning probabilities
License: MIT
URL: https://github.com/microprediction/winning
Source0: https://mirrors.nju.edu.cn/pypi/web/packages/d1/22/3f9f1d024652e044e101792228041146eb431b7effa04451bcc14fcdee72/winning-1.0.3.tar.gz
BuildArch: noarch
Requires: python3-numpy
Requires: python3-pytest
Requires: python3-pathlib
Requires: python3-wheel
%description



A fast, scalable numerical algorithm for inferring relative ability from multi-entrant contest winning probabilities.
Published in SIAM Journal on Quantitative Finance ([pdf](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/docs/Horse_Race_Problem__SIAM_updated.pdf)) although actually the algorithm implemented here is just a little sneakier now.

### Install
pip install winning
pip install scipy
You can avoid installing scipy if you have Python 3.8 and above and you don't wish to use the copula functionality.
### Usage
We choose a performance density
density = centered_std_density()
We set 'dividends', which are for all intents and purposes inverse probabilities
dividends = [2,6,np.nan, 3]
The algorithm implies relative ability (i.e. how much to translate the performance distributions to match the winning probabilities).
abilities = dividend_implied_ability(dividends=dividends,density=density, nan_value=2000)
Horses with no bid are assigned odds of nan_value ... or you can leave them out.
### Examples
See [example_basic](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic)
### Ideas beyond horse-racing
See the [notebook](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/Ability_Transforms_Updated.ipynb) for examples of the use of this ability transform.
See the [paper](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/docs/Horse_Race_Problem__SIAM_.pdf) for why this is useful in lots of places, according to a wise man. For instance, the algorithm may also find use anywhere winning probabilities or frequencies are apparent, such as with e-commerce product placement, in web search, or, as is shown in the paper: addressing a fundamental problem of trade.
### Generality
All performance distributions.
### Visual example:
Use densitiesPlot to show the results
L = 600
unit = 0.01
density = centered_std_density(L=L, unit=unit)
dividends = [2,6,np.nan, 3]
abilities = dividend_implied_ability(dividends=dividends,density=density, nan_value=2000, unit=unit)
densities = [skew_normal_density(L=L, unit=unit, loc=a, a=0, scale=1.0) for a in abilities]
legend = [ str(d) for d in dividends ]
densitiesPlot(densities=densities, unit=unit, legend=legend)
plt.show()

### Pricing show and place from win prices:
See the [basic examples](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic).
from winning.lattice_pricing import skew_normal_simulation
from pprint import pprint
dividends = [2.0,3.0,12.0,12.0,24.0,24.0]
pricing = skew_normal_simulation(dividends=dividends,longshot_expon=1.15,skew_parameter=1.0,nSamples=1000)
pprint(pricing)
### Cite
@article{doi:10.1137/19M1276261,
author = {Cotton, Peter},
title = {Inferring Relative Ability from Winning Probability in Multientrant Contests},
journal = {SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
pages = {295-317},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1137/19M1276261},
URL = {
https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1276261
},
eprint = {
https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1276261
}
}
### Nomenclature, assumptions, limitations
The lattice_calibration module allows the user to infer relative abilities from state prices in a multi-entrant contest.
At the racetrack, this would mean looking at the win odds and interpreting them as a relative ability.
The assumption made is that the performance distribution of one competitor is a translation of the performance distribution of another, and they are indepedent. The algorithm is:
- Fast
- Scalable ... to contests with hundreds of thousands of entrants.
- General ... as noted it works for any performance distribution.
Here's a quick glossary to help with reading the code. It's a mix of financial and racetrack lingo.
- *State prices* The expectation of an investment that has a payoff equal to 1 if there is only one winner, 1/2 if two are tied, 1/3 if three are tied and so forth. State prices are synomymous with winning probability, except for dead heats. However in the code a lattice is used so dead-heats must be accomodated and the distinction is important.
- (Relative) *ability* refers to how much one performance distribution needs to be
translated in order to match another. Implied abilities are vectors of relative abilities consistent with a collection of state prices.
- *Dividends* are the inverse of state prices. This is Australian tote vernacular. Dividends are called 'decimal odds' in the UK and that's probably a better name. A dividend of 9.0 corresponds to a state price of 1/9.0, and a bookmaker quote of 8/1. Don't ask me to translate to American odds conventions because they are so utterly ridiculous!
The core algorithm is entirely ambivalent to the choice of performance distribution, and that certainly need not correspond to some analytic distribution with known properties. But normal and skew-normal are simple choices. See the [basic examples](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic)
### Performance
For smallish races, we are talking a few hundred milliseconds.

For large races we are talking 25 seconds for a 100,000 horse race.

### Like parimutuels?
Support my open source work. Buy [Microprediction: Building An Open AI Network](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047326/microprediction/) published by MIT Press.
%package -n python3-winning
Summary: Fast ability inference from contest winning probabilities
Provides: python-winning
BuildRequires: python3-devel
BuildRequires: python3-setuptools
BuildRequires: python3-pip
%description -n python3-winning



A fast, scalable numerical algorithm for inferring relative ability from multi-entrant contest winning probabilities.
Published in SIAM Journal on Quantitative Finance ([pdf](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/docs/Horse_Race_Problem__SIAM_updated.pdf)) although actually the algorithm implemented here is just a little sneakier now.

### Install
pip install winning
pip install scipy
You can avoid installing scipy if you have Python 3.8 and above and you don't wish to use the copula functionality.
### Usage
We choose a performance density
density = centered_std_density()
We set 'dividends', which are for all intents and purposes inverse probabilities
dividends = [2,6,np.nan, 3]
The algorithm implies relative ability (i.e. how much to translate the performance distributions to match the winning probabilities).
abilities = dividend_implied_ability(dividends=dividends,density=density, nan_value=2000)
Horses with no bid are assigned odds of nan_value ... or you can leave them out.
### Examples
See [example_basic](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic)
### Ideas beyond horse-racing
See the [notebook](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/Ability_Transforms_Updated.ipynb) for examples of the use of this ability transform.
See the [paper](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/docs/Horse_Race_Problem__SIAM_.pdf) for why this is useful in lots of places, according to a wise man. For instance, the algorithm may also find use anywhere winning probabilities or frequencies are apparent, such as with e-commerce product placement, in web search, or, as is shown in the paper: addressing a fundamental problem of trade.
### Generality
All performance distributions.
### Visual example:
Use densitiesPlot to show the results
L = 600
unit = 0.01
density = centered_std_density(L=L, unit=unit)
dividends = [2,6,np.nan, 3]
abilities = dividend_implied_ability(dividends=dividends,density=density, nan_value=2000, unit=unit)
densities = [skew_normal_density(L=L, unit=unit, loc=a, a=0, scale=1.0) for a in abilities]
legend = [ str(d) for d in dividends ]
densitiesPlot(densities=densities, unit=unit, legend=legend)
plt.show()

### Pricing show and place from win prices:
See the [basic examples](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic).
from winning.lattice_pricing import skew_normal_simulation
from pprint import pprint
dividends = [2.0,3.0,12.0,12.0,24.0,24.0]
pricing = skew_normal_simulation(dividends=dividends,longshot_expon=1.15,skew_parameter=1.0,nSamples=1000)
pprint(pricing)
### Cite
@article{doi:10.1137/19M1276261,
author = {Cotton, Peter},
title = {Inferring Relative Ability from Winning Probability in Multientrant Contests},
journal = {SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
pages = {295-317},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1137/19M1276261},
URL = {
https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1276261
},
eprint = {
https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1276261
}
}
### Nomenclature, assumptions, limitations
The lattice_calibration module allows the user to infer relative abilities from state prices in a multi-entrant contest.
At the racetrack, this would mean looking at the win odds and interpreting them as a relative ability.
The assumption made is that the performance distribution of one competitor is a translation of the performance distribution of another, and they are indepedent. The algorithm is:
- Fast
- Scalable ... to contests with hundreds of thousands of entrants.
- General ... as noted it works for any performance distribution.
Here's a quick glossary to help with reading the code. It's a mix of financial and racetrack lingo.
- *State prices* The expectation of an investment that has a payoff equal to 1 if there is only one winner, 1/2 if two are tied, 1/3 if three are tied and so forth. State prices are synomymous with winning probability, except for dead heats. However in the code a lattice is used so dead-heats must be accomodated and the distinction is important.
- (Relative) *ability* refers to how much one performance distribution needs to be
translated in order to match another. Implied abilities are vectors of relative abilities consistent with a collection of state prices.
- *Dividends* are the inverse of state prices. This is Australian tote vernacular. Dividends are called 'decimal odds' in the UK and that's probably a better name. A dividend of 9.0 corresponds to a state price of 1/9.0, and a bookmaker quote of 8/1. Don't ask me to translate to American odds conventions because they are so utterly ridiculous!
The core algorithm is entirely ambivalent to the choice of performance distribution, and that certainly need not correspond to some analytic distribution with known properties. But normal and skew-normal are simple choices. See the [basic examples](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic)
### Performance
For smallish races, we are talking a few hundred milliseconds.

For large races we are talking 25 seconds for a 100,000 horse race.

### Like parimutuels?
Support my open source work. Buy [Microprediction: Building An Open AI Network](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047326/microprediction/) published by MIT Press.
%package help
Summary: Development documents and examples for winning
Provides: python3-winning-doc
%description help



A fast, scalable numerical algorithm for inferring relative ability from multi-entrant contest winning probabilities.
Published in SIAM Journal on Quantitative Finance ([pdf](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/docs/Horse_Race_Problem__SIAM_updated.pdf)) although actually the algorithm implemented here is just a little sneakier now.

### Install
pip install winning
pip install scipy
You can avoid installing scipy if you have Python 3.8 and above and you don't wish to use the copula functionality.
### Usage
We choose a performance density
density = centered_std_density()
We set 'dividends', which are for all intents and purposes inverse probabilities
dividends = [2,6,np.nan, 3]
The algorithm implies relative ability (i.e. how much to translate the performance distributions to match the winning probabilities).
abilities = dividend_implied_ability(dividends=dividends,density=density, nan_value=2000)
Horses with no bid are assigned odds of nan_value ... or you can leave them out.
### Examples
See [example_basic](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic)
### Ideas beyond horse-racing
See the [notebook](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/Ability_Transforms_Updated.ipynb) for examples of the use of this ability transform.
See the [paper](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/blob/main/docs/Horse_Race_Problem__SIAM_.pdf) for why this is useful in lots of places, according to a wise man. For instance, the algorithm may also find use anywhere winning probabilities or frequencies are apparent, such as with e-commerce product placement, in web search, or, as is shown in the paper: addressing a fundamental problem of trade.
### Generality
All performance distributions.
### Visual example:
Use densitiesPlot to show the results
L = 600
unit = 0.01
density = centered_std_density(L=L, unit=unit)
dividends = [2,6,np.nan, 3]
abilities = dividend_implied_ability(dividends=dividends,density=density, nan_value=2000, unit=unit)
densities = [skew_normal_density(L=L, unit=unit, loc=a, a=0, scale=1.0) for a in abilities]
legend = [ str(d) for d in dividends ]
densitiesPlot(densities=densities, unit=unit, legend=legend)
plt.show()

### Pricing show and place from win prices:
See the [basic examples](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic).
from winning.lattice_pricing import skew_normal_simulation
from pprint import pprint
dividends = [2.0,3.0,12.0,12.0,24.0,24.0]
pricing = skew_normal_simulation(dividends=dividends,longshot_expon=1.15,skew_parameter=1.0,nSamples=1000)
pprint(pricing)
### Cite
@article{doi:10.1137/19M1276261,
author = {Cotton, Peter},
title = {Inferring Relative Ability from Winning Probability in Multientrant Contests},
journal = {SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
pages = {295-317},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1137/19M1276261},
URL = {
https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1276261
},
eprint = {
https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1276261
}
}
### Nomenclature, assumptions, limitations
The lattice_calibration module allows the user to infer relative abilities from state prices in a multi-entrant contest.
At the racetrack, this would mean looking at the win odds and interpreting them as a relative ability.
The assumption made is that the performance distribution of one competitor is a translation of the performance distribution of another, and they are indepedent. The algorithm is:
- Fast
- Scalable ... to contests with hundreds of thousands of entrants.
- General ... as noted it works for any performance distribution.
Here's a quick glossary to help with reading the code. It's a mix of financial and racetrack lingo.
- *State prices* The expectation of an investment that has a payoff equal to 1 if there is only one winner, 1/2 if two are tied, 1/3 if three are tied and so forth. State prices are synomymous with winning probability, except for dead heats. However in the code a lattice is used so dead-heats must be accomodated and the distinction is important.
- (Relative) *ability* refers to how much one performance distribution needs to be
translated in order to match another. Implied abilities are vectors of relative abilities consistent with a collection of state prices.
- *Dividends* are the inverse of state prices. This is Australian tote vernacular. Dividends are called 'decimal odds' in the UK and that's probably a better name. A dividend of 9.0 corresponds to a state price of 1/9.0, and a bookmaker quote of 8/1. Don't ask me to translate to American odds conventions because they are so utterly ridiculous!
The core algorithm is entirely ambivalent to the choice of performance distribution, and that certainly need not correspond to some analytic distribution with known properties. But normal and skew-normal are simple choices. See the [basic examples](https://github.com/microprediction/winning/tree/main/examples_basic)
### Performance
For smallish races, we are talking a few hundred milliseconds.

For large races we are talking 25 seconds for a 100,000 horse race.

### Like parimutuels?
Support my open source work. Buy [Microprediction: Building An Open AI Network](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047326/microprediction/) published by MIT Press.
%prep
%autosetup -n winning-1.0.3
%build
%py3_build
%install
%py3_install
install -d -m755 %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}
if [ -d doc ]; then cp -arf doc %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
if [ -d docs ]; then cp -arf docs %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
if [ -d example ]; then cp -arf example %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
if [ -d examples ]; then cp -arf examples %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
pushd %{buildroot}
if [ -d usr/lib ]; then
find usr/lib -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
if [ -d usr/lib64 ]; then
find usr/lib64 -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
if [ -d usr/bin ]; then
find usr/bin -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
if [ -d usr/sbin ]; then
find usr/sbin -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
touch doclist.lst
if [ -d usr/share/man ]; then
find usr/share/man -type f -printf "/%h/%f.gz\n" >> doclist.lst
fi
popd
mv %{buildroot}/filelist.lst .
mv %{buildroot}/doclist.lst .
%files -n python3-winning -f filelist.lst
%dir %{python3_sitelib}/*
%files help -f doclist.lst
%{_docdir}/*
%changelog
* Tue May 30 2023 Python_Bot <Python_Bot@openeuler.org> - 1.0.3-1
- Package Spec generated
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