{"id":49,"date":"2006-02-04T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-02-04T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T02:56:00","slug":"doing-research-already-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/02\/04\/doing-research-already-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing research already done?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/05\/weekinreview\/05kolata.html\">nice article<\/a> about how research is often rediscovered.  The lead begins about operations research:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1996, Rakesh Vohra, a professor at Northwestern University, and his colleague Dean Foster published &#8220;A Randomized Rule for Selecting Forecasts,&#8221; a paper in the journal Operations Research. It illustrated how a random investor could outperform a group of professional stock pickers simply by following a &#8220;buy and hold&#8221; investment strategy.<br \/>\nSkip to next paragraph<br \/>\nAlain Pilon<\/p>\n<p>It was important research, the authors believed, until they learned that the same discovery had been made at least 16 times since the 1950&#8217;s. And no one, Dr. Vohra said, ever realized they were not doing original work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a referee, there are certain things in sports scheduling that I get quite often (generally some variation of de Werra&#8217;s work on minimum break scheduling) and I recently went a long way on a paper before de Werra pointed out to me that the results were included in a somewhat more obscure publication of his.  I wonder if online search will make it easier to find these duplicate results before it makes the literature?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a nice article about how research is often rediscovered. The lead begins about operations research: In 1996, Rakesh Vohra, a professor at Northwestern University, and his colleague Dean Foster published &#8220;A Randomized Rule for Selecting Forecasts,&#8221; a paper in the journal Operations Research. It illustrated how a random investor could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/02\/04\/doing-research-already-done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doing research already done?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}