Elimination of Randomization in Certain Problems of Statistics and of the Theory of Games.
Elimination of Randomization in Certain Problems of Statistics and of the Theory of Games.
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消除统计和博弈论某些问题中的随机性。
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.36.4.256
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发表时间:
1950
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Jacob Wolfowitz
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作者:
A. Dvoretzky;Abraham Wald;Jacob Wolfowitz
1. The main aim of this note is to show that mixed strategies may be eliminated from statistical decision rules based on the observation of random variables with continuous distribution functions, and from games of a similar structure. After stating a general measure-theoretic result in 2. we deduce in 3. and 4. some results on games. In 5. and 6. we give some results on decision problems. Our methods lead to considerably more general results than those presented here (in particular they can be applied to what may be termed sequential games). The selection of results presented here was motivated by our interest in statistical problems. Proofs and a more complete study of the subject will be published elsewhere. 2. Let {x} = X be any space and {SI = 3 a Borel field of subsets of X. Let Mk(S) (k = 1, 2, ..., p) be a finite number of real-valued, bounded and countably additive set functions defined for all S e S. The fundamental measure theoretic result mentioned in the introduction is the following: THEOREM 1. Let flj(x) (j = 1, 2, .. ., n) be real non-negative 3-measurable functions satisfying