Evidence for learning to learn behavior in normal form games

Theory and Decision

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 367-404

  Salmon, Timothy C ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fictitious play; Learning in games; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE LEARNING MODELS; FICTITIOUS PLAY; LEARNING IN GAMES; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 10844264151     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-004-8736-2     Document Type: Article

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