Assessing Judging bias: An example from the 2000 Olympic Games

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-131

  Emerson, John W ^a   Seltzer, Miki ^b   Lin, David ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competition; Rating; Regression; Subjective

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449158197     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.0026     Document Type: Article

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