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Can a Statistical Model Accurately Predict Olympic Medal Counts?

By Smithsonian magazine
February 10, 2014
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Sochi 2014 gold medal (front) — Credit: Sochi 2014

If someone asked you to predict the number of medals each country is going to win in this year's Olympics, you'd probably try to identify the favored athletes in each event, then total each country's expected wins to arrive at a result.

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