A comparison of two voting models to forecast election into The National Baseball Hall of Fame

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 99-113

  Findlay, David W ^a   Reid, Clifford E ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

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EID: 4344707022     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1050     Document Type: Article

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