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Breakdowns ∗ Godfrey Keller
We study a continuous-time game of strategic experimentation in which the players try to assess the failure rate of some new equipment or technology. Breakdowns occur at the jump times of a Poisson process whose unknown intensity is either high or low. In marked contrast to existing models, we find that the cooperative value function does not exhibit smooth pasting at the efficient cut-off beli...
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Dr. David Mermin's review of Alan Sokal's "Beyond the hoax" (Science wars revisited, N. David Mermin, Nature 454, 276-277, 17 July 2008) makes some good points, but the overall thrust is unnecessarily and unfairly negative. Anyone who has not read Dr. Sokal's book may come away with the impression that he has spent the whole book rehashing stale debates and attacking articulate and scientifical...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0041-977X,1474-0699
DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x00052186