Accession Number:

AD0752068

Title:

Games with Numbers.

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

TEXAS UNIV AUSTIN DEPT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Personal Author(s):

• Buchler,Ira R.

Report Date:

1972-09-15

Pagination or Media Count:

76.0

Abstract:

The report formalizes three separable, although related decision-models of a problem involving rational approximations of optimally efficient allocations of landlabor under i an invariant set of security requirements and ii a variable set of information conditions. The descriptive base is derived from a well-documented New Guinea economic system, although the solutions are formally extended to a more generic class of decision problems. The decision models include i linear programming, ii decision making under certainty plus a game against nature with a minimax solution, and iii a statistical game Bayesian analysis. Author

Descriptors:

• (*DECISION THEORY
• UNCERTAINTY)
• (*GAME THEORY
• PROBLEM SOLVING)
• LINEAR PROGRAMMING
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• INFORMATION THEORY
• PROBABILITY
• ANTHROPOLOGY
• ECONOMICS
• NEW GUINEA

Subject Categories:

• Operations Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE