March Madness and the office pool

Management Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 369-382

  Kaplan, Edward H ^a   Garstka, Stanley J ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Programming; March Madness; Markov Models; Office Pools; Probability Modeling; Statistical Estimation

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROBABILITY MODELING;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 0035295077     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.47.3.369.9769     Document Type: Article

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