In this paper we consider how to model basketball's points per possession data, and we show that the flexibility provided by a multinomial logistic regression is required for modeling this type of data. We show how to apply this model to ranking college basketball teams, and a method for estimating team win probabilities with this model is provided. We show how to use these win probabilities to...

The increasing attention towards the environmental impact of IT (information technology) demands reorientation from IT departments. Research has outlined that the importance of Green IT is related to IT business alignment and environmental initiatives while uncertainty potentially derives from missing standards, measurements, or missing internal support for Green IT. We assume that importance a...

This document discusses the Information Theoretically Efficient Model (ITEM), a computerized system to generate an information theoretically efficient multinomial logistic regression from a general dataset. More specifically, this model is designed to succeed even where the logit transform of the dependent variable is not necessarily linear in the independent variables. This research shows that...

Using financial ratio data from 2006 and 2007, this study uses a three-fold cross validation scheme to compare the classification pre diction of bankrupt firms by robust logistic regression with Bianco Yohai (BY) estimator versus maximum likelihood (ML) regression. With both 2007 data, BY improves in training set prediction testing set. In an out sample test, correctly predicts bankruptcy for L...