The Importance of a Game

DOI10.2307/2690849MaRDI QIDQ4845645zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark F. Schilling

Publication date 30 January 1996

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2690849

zbMATH Keywords

contextimportance of a gameprobabilistic perspective

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Game theory (91A99)

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