Strategic experimentation with exponential bandits

Econometrica

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-68

  Keller, Godfrey ^a   Rady, Sven ^b   Cripps, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Strategic experimentation; Two armed bandit

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744505519     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00564.x     Document Type: Review

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