A multi-stage game played by a single player. A game of chance $G$ is defined as a system
...yer is to maximize his utility function. The simplest example of a game of chance is a lottery. The player, who possesses an initial fortune $f$, may acquire
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<TR><TD valign="top">[a1]</TD> <TD valign="top"> B.B. Mandelbrot, "Form, chance and dimension" , Freeman (1977)</TD></TR>
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...set of wives.) Now, take a random pairing (a bijection again). What is the chance that this random pairing gives at least one "correct match" (i.e. coincid
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<TR><TD valign="top">[a1]</TD> <TD valign="top"> E. Sverdrup, "Laws and chance variations" , '''1''' , North-Holland (1967) pp. 214ff</TD></TR>
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included many leading figures of English society. By chance he
In 1692 Arbuthnot published ''Of the Laws of Chance'', a translation
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...compares with the girls yet unseen. A rule is asked for that maximizes the chance of actually selecting the best girl.
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Huygens had no chance to enter the
on games of chance. Christiaan Huygens was informed of these activities
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games of chance and of annuities on lives for his clients whom he used to meet
small tract concerning games of chance of [[Huygens, Christiaan|Christiaan Huygens]],
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chance of success had the same value, $\theta$ say; then the
about the chance $\theta$? There already existed partial answers.
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entitled ''The Logic of Chance'' and dealing with probability theory,
|valign="top"|{{Ref|4}}||valign="top"| Venn, J. (1866). ''The Logic of Chance'', McMillan, London. [2nd ed. 1876; 3rd ed. 1888, repr. 1962, Chelses, New
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...<TR><TD valign="top">[a1]</TD> <TD valign="top"> E. Sverdrup, "Laws and chance variations" , '''1''' , North-Holland (1967) pp. Chapt. 6, Section 4</TD>
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its relation to certainty, necessity and chance, and ways to estimate and
predecessor of tennis, as a game of chance.
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of the "ideal laws of chance" which are realised in true collectives. Chance
tried to design tests whereby variation due to factors other than chance could
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...natural assumptions, the good answer is "''Switch'', since this doubles my chance of winning the car: it goes from one third to two thirds".
...yer has chosen door 1 and the host has opened door 3, door 1 ''still'' has chance 1/3 to hide the car.
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...ch stage, participants who have not yet sold two letters all have an equal chance
...next sale, i.e., all unsaturated nodes of the recursive tree have an equal chance of being the ``parent" of the next node to be added.
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The ''Addition'' of 1834 gave him the chance to denounce the
results relatively independent of the anomalies of chance, and
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...as a chance of overlooking essential errors due to an unlucky choice. This chance never exceeds $50$%, regardless of the nature of errors, and vanishes as $1
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are purely due to chance, and the coefficient is equal to 1. But in
The fluctuations then indicate a ``physical" rather than a chance
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in games of chance which led him to write the ''Traité du
(3)''Use in dividing the stakes in games of chance'',
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