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Jacobson, Sheldon H. Dutta, Shouvik 2016-11-10T18:27:07Z 2016-11-10T18:27:07Z 2018-11-11T10:15:19Z 2016-07-21 2016-08 Balance Optimization Subset Selection (BOSS) is a framework designed to be used for causal inference on observational data. The theoretical foundation for the BOSS framework has been provided in the literature; this thesis aims to provide some examples of the practical value of BOSS by using it on two problems. The first application is using BOSS to determine a subset of users who would be suitable targets for marketing efforts, and the second application is using BOSS to identify potential first-round upsets in the NCAA basketball tournament. Finally, this thesis delves into another area of college basketball and attempts to model the process of the NCAA tournament selection committee using a decision tree. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01 The student, Shouvik Dutta, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-19 at 12:51. The student, Shouvik Dutta, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-07-19 at 12:54. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-07-21 at 14:08. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10013 on 2016-11-10 at 12:21:00 Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:27:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 DUTTA-THESIS-2016.pdf: 645024 bytes, checksum: 2db51a406961fe95b3cc42b8d0e55feb (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: c742995ea6b0e1b88acbf8698e6a703a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-21 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95292 Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:28:02Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 95292 on 2018-11-11T10:15:19Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/92872 en Copyright 2016 Shouvik Dutta Subset Selection Netflix Basketball Recommendations Applications of balance optimization subset selection text text Industrial&Enterprise Sys Eng Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.