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Son_tiny Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

What does it mean?

0 One-step 01font00deviation02font00 principle : In an infinite-horizon multi-step game which is continuous at infinity, profile s is subgame perfect iff there is no player i and no strategy s' (i) that agrees with s(i) except at a single step k and h power k and such that a 01font00unilateral deviation02font00 by player i to s'(i) give him a better payoff conditional on history h power k being reached.02br
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0 Well, the sentence means nothing to me - perhaps you miscopied it - but "deviation" means moving away from the norm or diverting away from a central position. 0-

— Eimai_Anglos

  • 0 Well, the sentence means nothing to me - perhaps you miscopied it - but "deviation" means moving away from the norm or diverting away from a central position.
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0 Well, the sentence means nothing to me - perhaps you miscopied it - but "deviation" means moving away from the norm or diverting away from a central position. 0-
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0 Well I coppied exactly in my thesis papers that I must read. Anyway thanks for giving me the meaning of the word. But I can't say I get this. According to your definition, I cant not understand the meaning of unilaterial deviation. Does it have any meaning out of the meaning which u gave me. I'm looking forward to hearing from u. Thank you teacher very much.0-
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0 It semms some kind of mathematical context, like game theory or something like that (nothing that I've ever studied, that's sure!) Probably, a deviation from a strategy s'(i) means that a player does an action that differs from the one in the strategy s'(i), thus "deviating" from that strategy (that is, going for a different path). 02br
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0 "Unilateral" means literally "one-sided". It refers to an action that is carried out by one entity but not by another. (Entity might be a person, a team, a country).02br
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00For example: "Russia decided on unilateral disarmament and trashed all its nuclear missiles. America decided to keep all its weapons."02br
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0 In the mathematical contest, iff stands for "if and only if". It very likely that in the game theory a "deviation" indicates something very specific, making the adjective "unilateral" clearer.0-
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0 Thank you very much for giving me the right direction to understand my thesis papers. Now I get what the paper say. Have a good day, teachers. 0-
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