The Box Problem: To Switch or Not to Switch

DOI10.2307/2691373MaRDI QIDQ4888647zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven J. Brams, D. Marc Kilgour

Publication date 23 February 1997

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2691373

zbMATH Keywords

box problemprior probability distributionSt. Petersburg paradoxswitch

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60) Utility theory (91B16)

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• Gain from the two-envelope problem via information asymmetry: on the suboptimality of randomized switching
• Randomized switching in the two-envelope problem
• A frequentist’s resolution of the exchange paradox
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