Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions

• Kevin Gross ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: krgross@ncsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5612-7519

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• Carl T. Bergstrom

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-385X

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