Consider a seller that had a single good, such as an slightly antiquated smartphone. This is the setup in a typical eBay auction, for example. There is some number n of (strategic!) bidders who are potentially interested in buying the item. We want to reason about bidder behavior in various auction formats. To do this, we need a model of what a bidder wants. The first key assumption is that eac...

We agree with Carrillo et al with regard to the importance of the information bias when dealing with cocaine use. Nevertheless, other factors also explain the differences between our results and the findings reported in their study, carried out in a coronary critical care unit (CCCU). In a study by Gupta et al involving 102 952 acute myocardial infarction patients in 364 hospitals participating...

We agree with Carrillo et al with regard to the importance of the information bias when dealing with cocaine use. Nevertheless, other factors also explain the differences between our results and the findings reported in their study, carried out in a coronary critical care unit (CCCU). In a study by Gupta et al involving 102 952 acute myocardial infarction patients in 364 hospitals participating...

Periprosthetic joint infections are devastating complications that are difficult and expensive to treat and have a substantial mortality rate. A major goal of modern joint arthroplasty is to minimize these infections. Preoperative factors associated with increased risk of infection include malnutrition, diabetes mellitus, obesity (body mass index.40 kg/m2), and rheumatoid arthritis. Administrat...

Last lecture we proved that coarse correlated equilibria (CCE) are tractable, in a satisfying sense: there are simple and computationally efficient learning procedures that converge quickly to the set of CCE. Of course, if anything in our equilibrium hierarchy (Figure 1) was going to be tractable, it was going to be CCE, the biggest set. The good researcher is never satisfied and always seeks s...

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