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ID50
First NameRick
Last NameSpellerberg
InstitutionSimpson College
Speaker Categoryfaculty
Title of TalkThe Sequence Prediction Game
AbstractThis talk will center on a review of a paper that appeared in the International Journal of Game Theory authored by David Blackwell who is a member of the statistics department at the University of California at Berkeley. In his paper, Blackwell considered the problem of predicting the short-term future behavior of a sequence, after observing it as long as you please, so as to achieve a specified reliability against all possible sequences. In particular, predicting when in a sequence of 0
Subject area(s)Game Theory
Suitable for undergraduates?Yes
Day Preference
Computer Needed?Y
Bringing a laptop?Y
Overhead Needed?Y
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Date Submitted3/4/2004
Year2004