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Den historiskt bästa Formel-1 föraren

Croneborg, Claes LU and Sjöberg, Viktor LU (2023) STAH11 20222
Department of Statistics
Abstract
It is difficult to definitively say who the greatest Formula One driver is. It is a subjective assessment and can depend on a variety of factors, including the driver’s skill, their results and accomplishments, their team and car, and the era in which they competed. Some of the most successful and highly regarded Formula One drivers include Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, and Juan Manuel Fangio. All of these drivers have achieved a high level of success and are considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. Ultimately, the question of who the greatest Formula One driver is can be a matter of personal opinion, and can vary depending on the criteria used to evaluate them. Formula One is a highly... (More)
It is difficult to definitively say who the greatest Formula One driver is. It is a subjective assessment and can depend on a variety of factors, including the driver’s skill, their results and accomplishments, their team and car, and the era in which they competed. Some of the most successful and highly regarded Formula One drivers include Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, and Juan Manuel Fangio. All of these drivers have achieved a high level of success and are considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. Ultimately, the question of who the greatest Formula One driver is can be a matter of personal opinion, and can vary depending on the criteria used to evaluate them. Formula One is a highly competitive sport, with drivers consistently vying for the title of the greatest of all time. In Formula One the car has a significant role in a driver’s success and failure respectively. In this study, we used Bayesian multilevel beta regression to analyze a dataset of Formula One based of every races and driver across all years, in order to determine the greatest driver in the history of the sport. The dataset included a variety of performance metrics, such as position, year, what car they drove. We found that Jim Clark was the top performer based on our analysis. Our results suggest that Jim Clark was the most consistently successful driver over a 3 years period as well as the highest career peak of all. (Less)
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author
Croneborg, Claes LU and Sjöberg, Viktor LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
En studie om den bästa Formel-1 föraren mellan åren 1950-2022
course
STAH11 20222
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Formula One, Multilevel-Model, Beta-Regression, Bayesian Estimation, Monte-Carlo simulation, Markov Chain, Statistics.
language
Swedish
additional info
För kod i programmet R, kontakta författarna per mail:

Claes Croneborg - claes@croneborg.se
Viktor Sjöberg - viktor@alfrida.se
id
9113689
date added to LUP
2023-05-04 11:10:25
date last changed
2023-05-04 11:10:25
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  abstract     = {{It is difficult to definitively say who the greatest Formula One driver is. It is a subjective assessment and can depend on a variety of factors, including the driver’s skill, their results and accomplishments, their team and car, and the era in which they competed. Some of the most successful and highly regarded Formula One drivers include Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, and Juan Manuel Fangio. All of these drivers have achieved a high level of success and are considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. Ultimately, the question of who the greatest Formula One driver is can be a matter of personal opinion, and can vary depending on the criteria used to evaluate them. Formula One is a highly competitive sport, with drivers consistently vying for the title of the greatest of all time. In Formula One the car has a significant role in a driver’s success and failure respectively. In this study, we used Bayesian multilevel beta regression to analyze a dataset of Formula One based of every races and driver across all years, in order to determine the greatest driver in the history of the sport. The dataset included a variety of performance metrics, such as position, year, what car they drove. We found that Jim Clark was the top performer based on our analysis. Our results suggest that Jim Clark was the most consistently successful driver over a 3 years period as well as the highest career peak of all.}},
  author       = {{Croneborg, Claes and Sjöberg, Viktor}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Den historiskt bästa Formel-1 föraren}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}