Wharton Sinkler, M.D.

579-584 WHARTON Mar_Apr 08.indd

Abstract. Objective: The authors assessed associations between body weight perception and weight loss strategies. Participants: They randomly selected male and female college students (N = 38,204). Methods: The authors conducted a secondary data analysis of the rates of weight loss strategies and body weight perception among students who completed the National College Health Assessment survey. ...

Wharton-SMU Research Center The Political Spectrum

Changing the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton

This paper reports on an experiment conducted at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, testing a new mechanism for matching students to schedules of courses. The experiment compared Budish’s (2011) approximate competitive equilibrium from equal incomes (CEEI) to the incumbent, a fake-money auction used by Wharton and numerous other professional schools. CEEI outperformed the auc...

, MD , PhD TONI BRANSFORD , MD , FACC

INSEAD - Wharton Alliance Center for Global Research & Development

This paper presents a new approach to the simulation ranking and selection problem, one that maximizes the expected NPV of decisions made when using stochastic simulation. Our formulation assumes that facilities exist to simulate a fixed number of alternative projects, and we pose the problem as a “stoppable” version of a Bayesian bandit problem. We show that, under relatively general condition...