Optimal stopping in “The Showcase Showdown”.
“The Showcase Showdown,” one of the games routinely played on the TV game show The Price is Right, is an excellent example of the use of elementary probability to solve a practical problem. The game involves many of the subjects typically covered in applied probability, namely, axioms of probabilit...
| Publicado en: | American Statistician Vol. 49; pp. 271 - 276 |
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American Statistical Association
August 1995
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