The need for more emphasis on prediction: A “nondenominational” model-based approach

American Statistician

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 71-83

  Harville, David A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basketball or football rankings and ratings; Bayesian inference; Empirical Bayes inference; Mixed effects linear models; Selection bias; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910628624     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2013.836987     Document Type: Article

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