Dynamic programming analysis of the tv game Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Marín, Alfredo; Nickel, Stefan; Puerto Albandoz, Justo; Velten, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.10.041

Article

dc.creator	Marín, Alfredo
dc.creator	Nickel, Stefan
dc.creator	Puerto Albandoz, Justo
dc.creator	Velten, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-23T13:56:33Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-23T13:56:33Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.issn	0166-218X
dc.identifier.other	http://grupo.us.es/gpb97/curri_sevilla/doc/VersionDOI.pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11441/26023
dc.description.abstract	This paper uses dynamic programming to investigate when contestants should use lifelines or when they should just stop answering in the TV quiz show ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’. It obtains the optimal strategies to maximize the expected reward and to maximize the probability of winning a given amount of money.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof	Discrete Applied Mathematics, 157(5), 1128-1145
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 España
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	Dynamic programming
dc.subject	Markov processes
dc.subject	Recreation
dc.title	Dynamic programming analysis of the tv game Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.contributor.affiliation	Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa
dc.relation.publisherversion	10.1016/j.dam.2008.03.013
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221706010320
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.ejor.2006.10.041	es
dc.identifier.idus	https://idus.us.es/xmlui/handle/11441/26023

Files	Size	Format	View	Description
file_1.pdf	907.5Kb	[PDF]	View/Open

This item appears in the following collection(s)

Artículos (Estadística e Investigación Operativa)

Show simple item record

Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 España