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Name: Martingale Sequences: The Concept, Examples, and Basic Patterns
ID: m31076
Language: English (en)
Summary: The notion of martingales and related concepts seem to have originated in studies of games of chance. Certain patterns were identified and extended to more general sequences of random variables. The resulting abstract theory provides a basis for many applications, both theoretical and practical.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: Absolutely fair, Basic patterns, Basic sequence, Decision sequence, Favorable, Incremental sequence, Martingale, Special cases, Submartingale, Supermartingale, Unfavorable
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Paul E Pfeiffer (perhp@earthlink.net)
Copyright Holders: Paul E Pfeiffer (perhp@earthlink.net)
Maintainers: Paul E Pfeiffer (perhp@earthlink.net), Daniel Williamson (dcwill@cnx.org), Richard Baraniuk (richb@rice.edu), C. Sidney Burrus (csb@rice.edu), Jared Adler (jca2@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.3 (history)
First publication date: Jul 16, 2009 2:18 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Sep 18, 2009 9:50 am -0500

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Version: 1.3 Sep 18, 2009 9:50 am -0500 by Daniel Williamson
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Version: 1.2 Aug 27, 2009 12:10 pm -0500 by Paul E Pfeiffer
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Version: 1.1 Aug 6, 2009 3:58 pm -0500 by Paul E Pfeiffer
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