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When the Price Is Shared, So Is the Skill: Competition and Common Value in Shared-Clearing Markets (Abstract)
Paper is submitted to AAMAS 2027 for review. abstract A scalar rating, such as an Elo score or a leaderboard rank, presumes that performance is one-dimensional. In certain markets that clear at a shared price this presumption fails, and it fails by construction. When both competitors sell into the same downward-sloping demand, each payoff carries a large common-value component that is shared with the opponent. Only a small competitive residual decides who wins. We establish t
Maham Haroon
Oct 62 min read
Cognitive Biases in Data Science: The Category-Size Bias
Story originally published on medium link for members: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/cognitive-biases-in-data-science-the-categ...
Maham Haroon
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Beyond Bar Charts: Data with Sankey, Circular Packing, and Network Graphs
Unconventional visualizations: when and when not to wield their power Post also available on medium: https://medium.com/towards-data-scie...
Maham Haroon
Aug 26, 20237 min read
P-Values: Understanding Statistical Significance in Plain Language
A guide to understanding p-value.
Maham Haroon
Aug 18, 20236 min read
A Layman's Introduction to MCMC
WHAT is MCMC? MCMC, short for Markov Chain Monte Carlo, is a class of algorithms used to approximate distributions we can not calculate...
Maham Haroon
Jul 22, 20223 min read
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