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Teaching Decision Making with Baseball Examples

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: Sports examples can be wonderful vehicles for teaching OR/MS concepts. Baseball is particularly well suited to teaching statistics/probability, Markov decision processes, and decision analysis. This paper details a baseball example I developed to teach fundamental decision making skills. This example has been used successfully to teach decision making to undergraduates and graduates in technical and non-technical disciplines. It has also been used effectively in industry for training new MBAs and seasoned executives.

Source: INFORMS Transactions on Education

DOI: 10.1287/ited.5.1.2

Author: J. Eric Bickel

Institution: Texas A&M University

Language: English

Topic: Management and Marketing Education

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1996508297

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Cites: 4

Cited by: 8

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