On economically tracking a variable environment

DOI10.1016/0040-5809(87)90036-0MaRDI QIDQ1820731zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. W. Stephens

Publication date 1987

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(87)90036-0

zbMATH Keywords

changing environmentfirst-order Markov chainlearningoptimal sampling behavioroptimizationsampling and overrun errorsstability of runstracking variable environments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Animal behavior (92D50)

Review text

This paper presents a simple model of how an animal should best use experience to track a changing environment. The model supposes that the environment switches between good and bad states according to a first- order Markov chain. The optimal sampling behavior is characterized in terms of the stability of runs (the probability that the environment will stay in the same state from one time to the next) and the relative costs of two kinds of errors; sampling and overrun errors. This model suggests further experimental and theoretical problems.

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