Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Statistics, probability and game theory: Papers in honor of David Blackwell

Editor: T. S. Ferguson
Editor: L. S. Shapley
Editor: J. B. MacQueen

Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Volume 30
Hayward, CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1996.
407 pp.

Subjects:

60-06 (primary)
00B30 (secondary)
62-06 (secondary)
90D40 (secondary)
Permanent link to this monograph: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215453556
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1481766
ISBN:0-940600-42-0

Copyright © 1996, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

i-iv

Preface

Thomas S. Ferguson, Lloyd S. Shapely, and James B. MacQueen; v-ix

Bibliography

x-xiv

A non-measurable tail set

David Blackwell, and Persi Diaconis; 1-5

The gambler's ruin problem for periodic walks

Lester E. Dubins; 7-12

Repeated ARAT games

F. Evangelista, T. E. S. Raghavan, and O. J. Vrieze; 13-28

On measurability and representation of strategic measures in Markov decision processes

Eugene A. Feinberg; 29-43

Hamiltonian cycle problem and singularly perturbed Markov decision process

Jerzy A. Filar, and Ke Liu; 45-63

Point processes without topology

Mark Finkelstein, Howard G. Tucker, and Jerry Alan Veeh; 65-81

De Finetti's theorem in continuous time

D. A. Freedman; 83-98

Comparison problems for experiments with curve responses

Soon B. Hong, and Lambert H. Koopmans; 99-113

A pathwise approach to Dynkin games

Ioannis Karatzas; 115-125

Comparison of experiments---a short review

L. Le Cam; 127-138

The creation and early history of the Berkeley Statistics Department

E. L. Lehmann; 139-146

Merging and learning

Ehud Lehrer, and Rann Smorodinsky; 147-168

Markov sculpture

James MacQueen; 169-190

The gambler and the stopper

Ashok P. Maitra, and William D. Sudderth; 191-208

Redistribution of velocity: collision transformations

R. Daniel Mauldin, and S. C. Williams; 209-231

Bayesian updatings in Hopfield-like associate memory models

Isaac Meilijson; 233-244

Some developments of the Blackwell-MacQueen urn scheme

Jim Pitman; 245-267

Results and problems in games of timing

Tadeusz Radzik; 269-292

Why did casino blackjack winnings drop?

John E. Rolph; 293-302

Exponential probability inequalities with some applications

George G. Roussas; 303-319

Carnapian inductive logic and Bayesian statistics

Brian Skyrms; 321-336

The asymptotic behaviour of a general finite nonhomogeneous Markov chain (the decomposition-separation theorem)

Isaac Sonin; 337-346

Randomness and foundations of probability: von Mises' axiomatisation of random sequences

Michiel van Lambalgen; 347-367

Blackwell games

Marco R. Vervoort; 369-390

Some reflections on and experiences with SPLIFs

Heinrich v. Weizsäcker; 391-399

Blackwell optimal policies in countable dynamic programming without aperiodicity assumptions

Alex Yushkevich; 401-407

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series