Applying discrete choice models to predict Academy Award winners

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 375-394

  Pardoe, Iain ^a,c   Simonton, Dean K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Conditional logit; Films; Forecasting; Mixed logit; Motion pictures; Movies; Multinomial logit

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549119480     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00518.x     Document Type: Article

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