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A STATISTICAL MODEL FOR DUPLICATE TOURNAMENTS IN GAMES OF LUCK AND SKILL
Author(s) -
Yu Philip L.H.,
Cowan Richard
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1995.tb00868.x
Subject(s) - luck , tournament , contest , computer science , mathematical economics , microeconomics , economics , mathematics , political science , epistemology , combinatorics , law , philosophy
Summary Many games played between two contestants start with a random deal, which introduces luck from the deal. The concept of ‘duplication’, commonly employed in Bridge tournaments, can be used to nullify that luck in a tournament. This paper poses a model for the contest between any two players and analyses the model for a tournament which employs the duplication principle. Two example tournaments on a new game are analysed.