The Disadvantage of Too Much Success

DOI10.2307/2690629MaRDI QIDQ2747357zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Reginald Koo, Martin L. Jones

Publication date 14 October 2001

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2690629

zbMATH Keywords

coin-tossing modelsexpected reward maximizationstochastic gamesstopping criterion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Stochastic games, stochastic differential games (91A15) Decision theory for games (91A35)

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