Leading the field: fortune favors the bold in Thurstonian choice models

DOI10.3150/17-BEJ930zbMath1441.62154arXiv1409.5924OpenAlexW2963343185WikidataQ128785802 ScholiaQ128785802MaRDI QIDQ1715518

Ronald L. Rivest, Steven N. Evans, Philip B. Stark

Publication date: 28 January 2019

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5924

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticcouplingdiscrete choice modelsstochastic dominationextreme valuewinning probabilityThurstonemaximum (or minimum) of random variablesmost dangerous equationpreference scoressmall schools phenomenontest of association

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

Uses Software

• Orthants

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