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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"betting"”.
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A statistical approach to sports betting
… one wishes to place bets. Through experience of betting, familiarity with certain sports and a natural aptitude for estimating probabilities, a small number of gamblers are able to do this. This thesis also attempts to achieve this but through purely scientific means. There are three main areas …
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Betting on Commercial Real Estate: Competition in Deposit Markets
We show that community banks operating in competitive deposit markets increase their exposure to commercial real estate. Facing rising funding costs and higher beta deposits, these banks shift toward higher-yield and lower duration assets to preserve profit margins and duration match. We test this …
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The Social Organisation of Off-Course Betting: An Ethnographic Perspective
… issues within the social world of the off-course betting office. It more specifically identified the main roles and key players in the performing of gambling scenes associated with such environments. Through the use of a multi-disciplinary approach (which draws heavily on the work of Goffman) the …
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Profitability in Sports Betting: A Case Study of Men's Tennis
… feasibility of profit generation through sports betting. While sports gambling represents a large and rapidly growing economic sector, few bettors are actually profitable and there is limited evidence of successful publicly available strategies. We investigate how such a strategy can be built for …
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Betting On Health Care: Evaluating Private Equity Activity In Addiction Treatment
Over the past few decades, private equity has become a growing force in health care, with the number of private equity deals in health care increasing tenfold from 2000 to 2018. Behavioral health has seen significant private equity investment, with addiction treatment facilities being a particular …
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Methods for the identification and optimal exploitation of profitable betting scenarios
… the issue of how gamblers can profit from betting on the outcome of sporting events. In particular, it addresses issues which have arisen in recent years concerning both the inception of betting exchanges, and the technique of building complex statistical models to accurately predict the …
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Esports betting technology: machine learning for match prediction and odds estimation
Esports betting is a rapidly growing segment of the online sports betting market. A key feature of this industry is the pricing of betting odds. This study investigated the online sports betting industry, odds compilation, and how machine learning can be used for sports prediction. The techniques …
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BETTING ON ALTERNATIVES: TARGETING TELOMERIC DILNCRNA AND BET PROTEINS IN ALT CANCER
The Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) pathway is a homology-driven, damage-induced mechanism of telomere maintenance (TMM) that sustains the proliferation of 10-15% of human cancers. We have recently discovered that damaged DNA, including deprotected telomeres, triggers de novo …
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European betting market efficiency and the frequency of draws in association football
… study attempts to investigate and scrutinise the betting market efficiency of the top eleven leagues in Europe for eight respective seasons starting from the campaign of 2005-06 till the season of 2012-13. An analysis of the ‘1X2’ market and the ‘Over/Under 2.5 goals’ market, using the average …
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Modelling football match results and testing the efficiency of the betting market
… that it is typically fixed odds in nature. The betting prices generally remain unchanged in relation to bettor demand. Created by the bookmakers, this added risk exposure generates ample opportunities to uncover inefficiencies in the market. A dataset consisting of information from the most …
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The Influence of Sports Betting Advertising on Young People: Mechanisms of Persuasion
In recent years, participation in sports betting has increased considerably in Australia, particularly among young people. While many individuals engage in sports betting without any negative consequences, there are some young individuals who do experience negative outcomes as a result of their …
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The full moon effect and the efficiency of point-spread betting in the NFL
… study examines the efficiency of point-spread betting lines of the National Football League, relative to the observed outcome of the games, using data on all regular season games between 1978 and 2007. In addition to replicating and extending the existing literature on the home-underdog bias as …
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SOME PROBLEMS IN BAYESIAN INFERENCE IN A NONCLASSICAL SETTING (OPERATIONAL STATISTICS, BETTING RATES, COHERENCE)
… consistency and strict consistency of a complete betting rate assignment are derived. A constructive proof is given of the existence of a unique second-order probability which induces a given consistent and countably additive complete betting rate assignment. Continuity of the Bayesian inference …
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Gambling: Towards a sociological analysis of action and interaction in the betting shop environment.
… was that the bookmaker always won, so to me, betting seemed a pointless activity. However my opinion dramatically changed when I backed my first winner and quadrupled my money as a result. Gambling then became an interesting activity
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Betting on Global Warming : The Impact of Insurance Instruments on Mitigation of Climate Change
… buying or selling of such assets amounts to 'betting on the climate state.' A large part of the analysis is concerned, in particular, with the specific claim that financial instruments defined on the climate state can reduce free riding behaviour with respect to abatement of greenhouse gases. …
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Betting on technology : the diffusion of mobile live-streaming apps within news startup actor-networks
This research combines the diffusion of innovations and actor-network theoretical models to present a detailed explanation of how the live-streaming mobile apps Meerkat and Periscope were adopted at two digital news startups, Mashable and The Huffington Post; and it identifies the complex …
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The efficient market hypothesis and gambling on National Football League games
The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) for sport betting states that all publicly available information should be mirrored in betting lines, so there should be no bias of betting outcomes. Because of several similarities to financial markets, the sport betting market is thought of as a fair market. …
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Platform gambling and the redistribution of wealth in the land-based betting industry : a critical realist case study
… of platform gambling – the network of fixed odds betting terminals, self-service betting terminals and online gambling – within the United Kingdom’s land-based betting industry. The study specifically explores if platform gambling can be perceived as exacerbating the view that the industry …
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Reno at the Races: Sporting Life versus Progressive Reform
The thesis examines horse race betting in the state of Nevada from 1915 to 1931 and how two opposing forces - sporting life and progressive reform - converged as state lawmakers passed progressive gambling legislation. While maybe not a catalyst, this legislation began Nevada's slippery slope to …
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Development of tolerance as a function of within session reinforcement in a blackjack game
… the effect of tolerance on an individual’s betting behavior after experiencing a history of a high probability of winning. Participants were randomly assigned into two groups and played a series of blackjack hands. The first group experienced an 80% probability of winning for phase 2 before …
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