Example sentences for: payoff

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  • Linda Tripp's Payoff

  • However, both are just certain regions within a larger universe of 24 possibilities in which various other types of symmetric games will be encountered [ 4 ] . These other undefined regions all represent different potential games so the whole is best described as a market, since different individuals meeting each other have different payoff matrices - or values - for tradable commodities (obtained from cooperation or defection) [ 17 28 ] . Prices change according to the relative value to the "buyer" and "investor" and, since these vary, the interactions between members of any one population can move dynamically around the phase space, sometimes in and out of special areas such as those defined as the Prisoner's Dilemma.

  • If the distribution of the higher payoff X 1 is ~ N (1, 1), and the lower payoff X 2 ~ N (0, 1) then the probability of these two payoffs swapping rank is P(X 2 - X 1 > 0).

  • As payoff intervals increase, the variance of the normally distributed errors becomes relatively less important and cause less rank changes, since overlaps are less likely when payoffs are more separated from each other.

  • 4 billion, pocketing $100 million for himself--a modest payoff, he says, for the $6 billion in increased shareholder value.


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