Predicting Virtual Markets
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Predicting markets (such as the stock market) has been and still is a topic of great interest and importance to many people. Unfortunately due to the extremely large number of factors which can affect the market, it is often difficult to accurately assess the value of a new object that is just being released into the world. In this project I will be considering a much smaller scale market in order to better understand how to model the various characteristics of the object in order to accurately assess it’s ”true value”. Although it is certainly possible that none of the particular influences/ qualities of this market are reflected in the real world, perhaps insights gained from modeling this smaller market could lead to the development of more sophisticated models for real world markets.
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