Hot-hand effects in sports and a recursive method of computing probabilities for streaks

DOI10.1016/j.cor.2004.09.023zbMath1090.90195OpenAlexW2047014552MaRDI QIDQ2583778

Donald E. K. Martin

Publication date: 18 January 2006

Published in: Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2004.09.023

zbMATH Keywords

dependencehot handbinary trialslongest runstreakswaiting-time distributionshigher-order Markovian sequencesrun probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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Runs of Markov chains and streaks in baseball

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