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A stochastic analysis of scoring systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Graham Hilford Pollard
Graham Hilford Pollard
Affiliation:
School of Information Sciences, Canberra College of Advanced Education, P.O. Box 1, Belconnon, A.C.T. 2616, Australia
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Abstracts of Australasian PhD Theses
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , October 1988 , pp. 317 - 319
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1988

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