How well did our students match? A peer-validated quantitative assessment of medical school match success: the match quality score

The Big Match and the Paris Match

Is it a match? a novel method of evaluating medical school success

BACKGROUND Medical education program evaluation allows for curricular improvements to both Undergraduate (UME) and Graduate Medical Education (GME). UME programs are left with little more than match rates and self-report to evaluate success of graduates in The Match. OBJECTIVE This manuscript shares a novel method of program evaluation through a systematic assessment of Match outcomes. DESI...

A Robust Redesign of High School Match

Many school districts allow students to report their preference rankings over schools and assign as many students as possible to their reported favorite schools. However, this well-intended assignment policy, known as the Boston mechanism, creates incentives for students to misreport their true preferences. I consider the problem of estimating students’ preference parameters with reported ranki...

Integrating Image Quality in 2nu-SVM Biometric Match Score Fusion

This paper proposes an intelligent 2nu-support vector machine based match score fusion algorithm to improve the performance of face and iris recognition by integrating the quality of images. The proposed algorithm applies redundant discrete wavelet transform to evaluate the underlying linear and non-linear features present in the image. A composite quality score is computed to determine the ext...

Mis-match, Re-match and Investment

Mobility depends essentially on investment, which often occurs in environments in which individuals match (school) or will match after investing (the labor market). Where partners can transfer surplus to each other only imperfectly (NTU), the pattern of matching will typically be inefficient, involving too much segregation, and provide a possible rationale for “associational redistribution” suc...