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I wanted to read those papers, but I can't find anything about the second one beyond the fact that it exists.

• jrochkind1 8y ago
  I've found that many conference "papers" were never actually written as papers at all, they were just oral presentations at a conference. Someone who was there cites it in a paper of their own, and then a bunch of other people copy the citation without actually having seen/read the "paper".
• svmt 8y ago
  I found the second paper behind a paywall: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299438463_Advances_in_mathematical_modelling_of_horse_race_outcome_probabilities https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299438463_Advances_... Edit: there's a 2008 version or reprint of the first paper: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789812819192_0019 https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/978981281919...
  • gwern 8y ago
    > I found the second paper behind a paywall: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299438463_Advances_.. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299438463_Advances_.... I don't believe that's a paywall, just Researchgate being scummy like usual and using a citation while pretending to have a copy - all that would do is ping Benter to ask for a copy. I can't find any evidence that that conference presentation was published or that the conference proceedings as a whole were ever published.
• joosters 8y ago
  There's a copy of the first paper available at: https://www.scribd.com/doc/166556276/Benter https://www.scribd.com/doc/166556276/Benter If you're interested in those two papers, the earlier paper 'Searching for Positive Returns at the Track: A Multinomial Logit Model for Handicapping Horse Races' (Bolton, Ruth N. and Randall G. Chapman) is also worth reading: http://www.ruthnbolton.com/Publications/Track.pdf http://www.ruthnbolton.com/Publications/Track.pdf