Information Theory and Gambling/Economics
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Information theory and Gambling/Economics
Kelly showed that if the outcome of each horse race is represented by a random variable X and gambler has some side information Y relevant to the outcome of the race, then under some condition of odds, the mutual information I(X;Y ) is the difference in growth rates of the wealth with and without side information. The side information can be considered to be a set of symbols received over a com...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009