Two issues surrounding parrondo’s paradox

Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages 599-609

  Costa, Andre ^a   Fackrell, Mark ^b   Taylor, Peter G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fair game; Matrix analytic method; Stationary probability vector; Winning probability; Winning region

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955553267     PISSN: 24740179     EISSN: 24740187     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-8176-4429-6_31     Document Type: Chapter

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