{"product_id":"prediction-learning-and-games-nicolo-cesa-bianchi-9780521841085","title":"Prediction, Learning, and Games","description":"This important text and reference for researchers and students in machine learning, game theory, statistics and information theory offers a comprehensive treatment of the problem of predicting individual sequences. Unlike standard statistical approaches to forecasting, prediction of individual sequences does not impose any probabilistic assumption on the data-generating mechanism. Yet, prediction algorithms can be constructed that work well for all possible sequences, in the sense that their performance is always nearly as good as the best forecasting strategy in a given reference class. The central theme is the model of prediction using expert advice, a general framework within which many related problems can be cast and discussed. Repeated game playing, adaptive data compression, sequential investment in the stock market, sequential pattern analysis, and several other problems are viewed as instances of the experts' framework and analyzed from a common nonstochastic standpoint that often reveals new and intriguing connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521841089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521841085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.10d","brand":"Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43987333873919,"sku":"9780521841085","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_27bf840b-5d82-482a-b317-825e6270fd03.jpg?v=1683288364","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prediction-learning-and-games-nicolo-cesa-bianchi-9780521841085","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}