Concerning an adversarial version of the Last-Success-Problem
Abstract
There are independent Bernoulli random variables with parameters that are observed sequentially. Two players, A and B, act in turns starting with player A. Each player has the possibility on his turn, when , to choose whether to continue with his turn or to pass his turn on to his opponent for observation of the variable . If , the player must necessarily to continue with his turn. After observing the last variable, the player whose turn it is wins if , and loses otherwise. We determine the optimal strategy for the player whose turn it is and establish the necessary and sufficient condition for player A to have a greater probability of winning than player B. We find that, in the case of Bernoulli random variables with parameters , the probability of player A winning is decreasing with towards its limit . We also study the game when the parameters are the results of uniform random variables,
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@article{arxiv.1812.05381,
title = {Concerning an adversarial version of the Last-Success-Problem},
author = {José María Grau Ribas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05381},
year = {2019}
}