Venkata Prava, A former Ph.D. student of ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney, was recognized as a runner up in the 2016 Decision Analysis Award (DAS) student paper competition. The paper entitled, “Partition Dependence and Carryover Biases in Subjective Probability Assessment Surveys for Continuous Variables: Model-based Estimation and Correction,” was produced as part of an NSF grant that was awarded to Kenney and Prava’s other advisors. Prava will receive a DAS certificate of merit at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting held in Nashville, TN in November 2016.
Venkata R. Prava, Robert T. Clemen, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Melissa A. Kenney,
2016: "Partition Dependence and Carryover Biases in Subjective Probability
Assessment Surveys for Continuous Variables: Model-based Estimation and
Correction", Decision Analysis, 13(1):51-67