The predictive power of three prominent tournament formats

Management Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 492-504

  Ryvkin, Dmitry ^a   Ortmann, Andreas ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Design; Predictive power; Selection; Tournament; Tournament format

Indexed keywords

PREDICTIVE POWER; TOURNAMENT; TOURNAMENT FORMAT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROBABILITY;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 41549108836     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1070.0856     Document Type: Article

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