Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers

DOI10.3982/ECTA14943zbMath1411.91195arXiv1902.01265MaRDI QIDQ4630030

Joshua Miller, Adam Sanjurjo

Publication date: 29 March 2019

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01265

zbMATH Keywords

selection biassequential decision makinggambler's fallacylaw of small numberssequential datasmall sample biasfinite sample biasalternation biashot hand effecthot hand fallacynegative recency bias

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Decision theory (91B06)

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