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The Contingent Impact of Failing Fast on Salesperson Performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-18)
Sales is a profession that faces an inordinate amount of failure. When salespeople fail and face rejection from the customer, the consequences can be widespread and lasting. Perhaps, however, salespeople should not aim to ...
Management Science & Practice, deployed in providing Technology Enabled Remote Healthcare
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-04)
The only way to bridge the ever-increasing urban rural health divide is to use Information & Communication Technology and integrate Telehealth into the healthcare delivery system. This profusely illustrated presentation ...
Do Expectations Reflect Information Reliability? Evidence From Odds on Tennis Matches
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-22)
We examine whether people form expectations by placing a larger weight on more reliable signals. To test this notion, we analyze subjective probabilities inferred from odds offered on the outcomes of men's tennis matches, ...
Causal inference and finite population sampling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-17)
In recent years, there has been a significant interest in causal inference in a potential outcomes framework, with applications to such diverse fields as sociology, behavioral sciences, biomedical sciences, and so on. The ...
Minimum distance model checking in Berkson measurement error models with validation data
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-12)
This talk will present a class of tests for fitting a parametric model to the regression function in the presence of Berkson measurement error in the covariates without specifying the measurement error density but when ...