End Of Semester Schedule

 

 

 

Dates

 

Tuesday, May 2: Edgertown Case Discussion. Perspectives on Game Theory.

Thursday, May 4: Perspectives on Negotiations. Review of course for Final.

Tuesday, May 9: No class. Course lunch at Leverett House from 12:30 to 1:30. Bring your diaries for discussion.

Thursday, May 11: Review class at 10 in room 507 as usual. Bring questions.

Usual Goroff office hours in SC 430 from 11:30 to 1:00.

Tuesday, May 16: No class. Last day to hand in review problems, diaries, etc.

Thursday, May 18: Usual Goroff office hours in SC 430 from 11:30 to 1:00.

Monday, May 22: Final Exam in Harvard 103 at 2:15.

 

 

Extra Sources

 

Monty Hall: There are several places on the web you can play and keep score. One is http://www.cut-the-knot.com/hall.html.

At http://www.intergalact.com/threedoor/threedoor.cgi there is code for running simulations, and results for 100,000 tries showing that sticking wins 33.27% of the time and switching wins 66.76%.

Sampling: The value of perfect and imperfect information about a true population proportion p is discussed in Chapter 7 of Raiffa's Decision Analysis.

Philosophy: A good discussion of Classical vs. Bayesian statistics begins Chapter 10 of Raiffa's Decision Analysis.