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Minimax vs. Bayes Prediction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

D. Blackwell
D. Blackwell
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
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Let x = (x1, x2, …) be an infinite sequence of 0's and 1's, initially unknown to you. On day n = 1,2,…, you observe hn = (x1, …, xn–1), the first n – 1 terms of the sequence, and must predict xn. What is a good prediction method, and how well can you do?

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 53 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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