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Wiley InterScience

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Volume 4 Issue 4, Pages 168 - 173

Published Online: 10 Dec 2007

© 2009 The Royal Statistical Society



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Predicting Oscar winners
Iain Pardoe 1
  1 Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon.

For his predictions of the next Oscar winners, wait until February—then see his website http://lcbl.uoregon.edu/ipar-doe/oscars

Copyright 2007 The Royal Statistical Society

ABSTRACT

Each year, hundreds of millions of people worldwide watch the televised Oscars ceremony. Can one predict which films and which directors, actors and actresses will win the Oscars?Iain Pardoe believes that he can.


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