The Box Problem: To Switch or Not to Switch

DOI10.2307/2691373zbMath0856.90152OpenAlexW4205683491MaRDI QIDQ4888647

D. Marc Kilgour, Steven J. Brams

Publication date: 23 February 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

switchSt. Petersburg paradoxprior probability distributionbox problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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