| Article ID: | iaor20033276 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 245 |
| End Page Number: | 251 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Game Theory |
| Authors: | Blackwell D. |
The problem of predicting the short-term future behavior of a sequence, after observing it as long as we please, so as to achieve a specified reliability against all possible sequences is considered. For a particular problem, namely, predicting when in a sequence of 0's and 1's the pair (1, 0) in that order is not coming next, a reliability of 3/4 and be approximated as closely as we please, but not achieved.