Yet the majority of survey respondents (about 60%) said that the outcome-based model with its fixed fee pricing is more effective.
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Yet Murthy sees ample room for both the efforts- and outcome-based model.
Sagarin, who has one of the older and more respected prediction equations in the business, said a year or two of success does not mean a model will continue to foretell the outcome of the tournament correctly.
Neither outcome is satisfactory for using the cell lines to model diseases or screen drugs.
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The best way to see whether a fire-forecasting system works or not is to simulate a fire whose outcome is already known, and see whether the model correctly predicts what happened.
The papal election resembles how decisions were made in Europe some 700 years ago, before elected monarchies were replaced by hereditary monarchies, says Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, professor of politics at New York University who uses a computer model based on game theory to predict the outcome of elections.
As is elaborated below, this view can be considered mostly hot air since the therapy model or technique accounts for only 1% of the outcome variance in psychotherapy, whereas the client and the therapist account for much more of the outcome variance.
The Forbes survey found that companies that use the outcome-based approach are more innovative, and not surprisingly, that this model tends to have a positive impact on growth.
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There is a drawback to this model in that it uses venue and squad valuations as inputs to determining match outcome likelihoods.
Stefan Szymanski, who teaches economics at Imperial College London, reckons one outcome of a proposal the European Commission is debating now could be the adoption of an American sports model that forces teams to share revenue and lets the worst of them pick some of the best new talent.
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