Optimal Strategies in Games of Survival

Abstract

A simple procedure is given to calculate the optimal strategies and the survival probability for a general class of games of survival. Theorem 1 shows that for games of this particular type, the optimal strategy for both players depends only on the amount of money held by the second player.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 18, 1952
Accession Number
ADA596145

Entities

People

  • Melvin Hausner

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • California
  • Corporations
  • Information Operations
  • Probability
  • Survival
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Economics
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Game Theory.
  • Regression Analysis.