Randomized switching in the two-envelope problem

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2009.0312MaRDI QIDQ3561998zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mark D. McDonnell, Derek Abbott

Publication date 19 May 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/vol465/issue2111/

zbMATH Keywords

cover switchingexchange paradoxoptimal switchingParrondo's principletwo-envelope problemtwo-state random mixing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06)

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