This article summarizes Categories 2 and 3 of CASMI 2016, including organization, participation and additional post-contest analysis.
Very interesting and constructive discussions have resulted from choosing to prepare this article with "all on board" and the post-contest analysis has been instrumental in teasing apart some of the differences between the actual contest results.
ADRZ contest our analysis by doing one of two things to eliminate the influence of the problematic recessionary periods on the specifications with state-specific linear trends: they either drop the quarters that corresponded to recessionary quarters as indicated by NBER recession dates; or they include dummy variables interacting each of these spells with state dummy variables.
Three law professors from Campbell University, a Baptist college about 30 miles south of Raleigh, came out with a paper contesting this analysis, saying that this "much broader view of the amendment and its consequences has little support in the amendment's language or context, or in court decisions from North Carolina or other states".
But O.J.'s lawyer Malcolm LaVergne contests that analysis.
Mr. Schnur was referring to the Republican contest, but his analysis could apply to the Democrats, too, especially if Mr. Gore wins the state that he has long called his fire wall.
Australia's Kaggle, which specializes in data science crowdsourcing, appears to now be larger than InnoCentive and currently has the single-largest, open crowdsourcing project in the world (a $3 million data analysis contest to predict patients who will be admitted to the hospital within one year).
Interestingly, while the aggregate results indicate similar behavior in the proportional-prize and multi-prize contests, individual level analysis indicates that the behavior in the single-prize contest is more similar to the behavior in the multi-prize contest than in the proportional-prize contest.
While the tax study has emerged as a major component of the economic debate at the core of this year's presidential campaign, Mr. Romney did not allude to the analysis to contest its conclusions as he campaigned in Colorado on Thursday.
He urged the party not to rush into a contest without a full analysis of what went wrong.
