Revisiting Francis Galton's forecasting competition

DOI10.1214/14-STS468zbMath1331.62025arXiv1410.3989OpenAlexW2022219127WikidataQ56083622 ScholiaQ56083622MaRDI QIDQ252731

Kenneth F. Wallis

Publication date: 4 March 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3989

zbMATH Keywords

kurtosisskewnessforecast combinationsforecast competitionsthe wisdom of crowdstwo-piece distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03) Statistical ranking and selection procedures (62F07)

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