Predicting at Random [Composite]
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A source sequentially generates 0’s or 1’s, and one must predict against it, with knowledge of success or failure after each prediction. What is the optimal strategy here? The distinguished probabilist and statistician David Blackwell solves this problem and then sketches its application.
Blackwell, David, 1919-2010
1966
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