This paper considers the cardgame Blackjack according to the rules of Holland Casino's in the Netherlands. Expected gains of strategies are derived with simulation and also with analytic tools. New effiency concepts based on the gains of the basic and the optimal strategy are introduced. A...

Summary A common assumption in supervised learning is that the training and test input points follow the same probability distribution. However, this assumption is not fulfilled, e.g., in interpolation, extrapolation, active learning, or classification with imbalanced data. The violation of this...

This paper demonstrates the fact that collinearity between the explanatory variables has an important influence on the estimated parameters values and, also, on the Fisher and Student tests if the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Method is used. The impact of collinearity in linear regressions is...