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

DOI10.1016/J.COR.2004.09.023MaRDI QIDQ2583778zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

binary trialsdependencehigher-order Markovian sequenceshot handlongest runrun probabilitiesstreakswaiting-time distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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