SFB 303 Discussion Paper No. B - 363
Author: Tang, Fang-Fang
Title: Anticipatory Learning in Two-Person Games: An Experimental Study Part II. Learning
Abstract: "Learning" can be viewed as any systematic change of behavior due to experience accumulation. A
learning model, following the probabilistic approach of Bush and Mosteller (1955), is a mathematical system
which predicts the probabilities of available choices or feasible actions at the next occurrence, based on all or
part of the historical information. Mathematically some stochastical process must be defined explicitly, which
we will do so for a number of models in the subsequent sections of this part. Nevertheless, our main interest
concentrates on the empirical side of these models, viz. the extent of their predictive success for our
experimental data. This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2.2, we will formally lay out all the learning
models we have tested, and discuss some inter-relationships among them. In Section 2.3, numerical results on
the predictive success of these learning models under the quadratic deviation measurement will be shown and
interpretations or implications of these results will be discussed. The main findings of an analogous investigation
under the absolute deviation measurement will be briefly reported as well. We conclude in Section 2.4.
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Creation-Date: March 1996
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