St. Petersburg games with the largest gains withheld

Sándor Csörgo and Gordon Simons

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2007, vol. 77, issue 12, 1185-1189

Abstract: An intuitively appealing exact formula is derived for the expected total winnings in n generalized St. Petersburg games when the bank withholds the m largest winnings.

Keywords: Generalized; St.; Petersburg; games; Largest; winnings; withheld; Expected; gains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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