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ACO in Python: Minimum Weight Perfect Matchings (a.k.a. Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 4)
This is the final item in my series on Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health, and it brings the story full circle, returning to the algorithms side of the show. Today I’ll demonstrate how to actually find minimum-weight perfect matchings in … Continue reading
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Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 3, A Stylized Virginity Pledge
It’s been three weeks and one IHME retreat since I wrote about matching algorithms and virginity pledges, and I think I now understand what’s going on in Patient Teenagers well enough to describe it. I’ll try to give a stylized … Continue reading
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Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 2, Matching and Virginity Pledges
I might have been a little over-ambitious with this series. I wrote a little bit about the how matching theory emerged from the social sciences two weeks ago. But then I got really busy! And that was the part I … Continue reading
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Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 1, Matchings Emerge from Social Science
Earlier this week, I was inspired by current events to launch a bold, crazy-sounding series about matching theory and its application to reproductive health. This first installment is a quick social history of the development of matching theory, largely influenced … Continue reading
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Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 0
One of the first things on Obama’s agenda after being sworn in as President last week was lifting the “global gag rule”, a Regan-era innovation that tied US aid to strict anti-choice regulations. Meanwhile, the TCS reading group at UW … Continue reading
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