Modifying variability and correlations in winner-take-all contests

Operations Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Gaba, Anil ^a   Tsetlin, Ilia ^a   Winkler, Robert L ^b  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis: strategies in contests, modifying variability, modifying correlations

Indexed keywords

DECISION ANALYSIS: STRATEGIES IN CONTESTS, MODIFYING VARIABILITY; MODIFYING CONTESTS; WINNER-TAKE-ALL CONTESTES;

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COMPETITION;

EID: 19744380703     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1030.0098     Document Type: Article

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