March 2015 An optimal threshold strategy in the two-envelope problem with partial information
Martin Egozcue, Luis Fuentes García
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J. Appl. Probab. 52(1): 298-304 (March 2015). DOI: 10.1239/jap/1429282624

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In this paper we propose a strategy that gives an optimal lower bound of the average gain for the two-envelope problem within the McDonnell and Abbott (2009) and McDonnell et al. (2011) framework. We obtain this result with partial information about the probability distribution of the envelope's contents.

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Martin Egozcue. Luis Fuentes García. "An optimal threshold strategy in the two-envelope problem with partial information." J. Appl. Probab. 52 (1) 298 - 304, March 2015. https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1429282624

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Published: March 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 17 April 2015

zbMATH: 1312.91040
MathSciNet: MR3336864
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1239/jap/1429282624

Subjects:
Primary: 91B06
Secondary: 60G40

Keywords: decision theory , threshold strategy , Two-envelope problem

Rights: Copyright © 2015 Applied Probability Trust

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