Old tails: a crude power law fit on ebook sales
We use R to take a very brief look at the distribution of e-book sales on Amazon.com.
Working an example of von Neumann and Morgenstern utility
von Neumann and Morgenstern’s “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior” is the famous basis for game theory. One of the central accomplishments is the rigorous proof that comparative “preference methods” over fairly complicated “event spaces” are no more expressive than numeric (real number valued) utilities. That is: for a very […]