Capital Process and Optimality Properties of a Bayesian Skeptic in Coin-Tossing Games

DOI10.1080/07362990802405646MaRDI QIDQ3548434zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masayuki Kumon, Kei Takeuchi, Akimichi Takemura

Publication date 12 December 2008

Published in Stochastic Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510662

zbMATH Keywords

exchangeabilitybeta-binomial distributionprior distributionKullback divergencegame-theoretic probabilityhypergeometric distributionAzuma-Hoeffding-Bennett inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inference from stochastic processes and prediction (62M20) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Stochastic games, stochastic differential games (91A15) Other game-theoretic models (91A40)

Abstract: We study capital process behavior in the fair-coin game and biased-coin games in the framework of the game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk (2001). We show that if Skeptic uses a Bayesian strategy with a beta prior, the capital process is lucidly expressed in terms of the past average of Reality's moves. From this it is proved that the Skeptic's Bayesian strategy weakly forces the strong law of large numbers (SLLN) with the convergence rate of O(sqrt{log n/n})$ and if Reality violates SLLN then the exponential growth rate of the capital process is very accurately described in terms of the Kullback divergence between the average of Reality's moves when she violates SLLN and the average when she observes SLLN. We also investigate optimality properties associated with Bayesian strategy.

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