Lecture 10 - Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes

Yale Open Courses ECON 159: Game Theory by William Sheppard

Jun 4, 201801:13:31Education

We develop three different interpretations of mixed strategies in various contexts: sport, anti-terrorism strategy, dating, paying taxes and auditing taxpayers. One interpretation is that people literally randomize over...

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