Mathematics is a natural language for quantifying and codifying thoughts and ideas. It is also a language of precision and logic. Just as pictures or words can be used to describe objects or actions, ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics) A discrete alternative to the logistic growth function is derived by forming the difference equation corresponding to the ...

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