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Applying Statistical Models to Donor Databases

By Cassie J. Moore

Baseball, Fundraising, and the 80/20 Rule: Studies in Data Mining
by Peter B. Wylie

Statistical modeling can help fund raisers make their appeals far more cost-effective by focusing on those donors most likely to give, writes Peter B. Wylie, an industrial psychologist and data analyst.

He writes that any fund raiser with at...

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