Teaching Decision Making with Baseball Examples
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Teaching Decision Making with Baseball Examples
Sports examples can be wonderful vehicles for teaching OR/MS concepts. Baseball is particularly well suited to teaching statistics/probability, Markov decision processes, and decision analysis. This paper details a baseball example I developed to teach fundamental decision making skills. This example has been used successfully to teach decision making to undergraduates and graduates in technica...
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عنوان ژورنال: INFORMS Transactions on Education
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1532-0545,1532-0545
DOI: 10.1287/ited.5.1.2