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World Cup Forecasting Challenge For Quants

Posted by timothy on from the kickoff-in-four-days dept.

databuff writes "As a break from projecting the strength of subprime mortgages, credit default swaps, and other obscure financial instruments, quantitative analysts at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, and Danske Bank have modeled the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Now Kaggle has set up a forecasting competition, allowing statisticians to go head-to-head with these corporate giants. The challenge is to predict how far each country will progress in the tournament."

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  1. Re:Stats game... by alexhs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, it's the closest prime UID to 1337, but it's still not 1337. Lame.

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  2. Re:Bias by SoVeryTired · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Tasteless.

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