An Experiment in Mental Generation of Random Numbers

John Willard Milnor

ResearchPublished 1952

An experimental attempt to study sequential behavior in the game of matching pennies as compared with behavior when a subject is asked to produce a random sequence.

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  • Year: 1952
  • Pages: 13
  • Document Number: RM-936

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Milnor, John Willard, An Experiment in Mental Generation of Random Numbers. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1952. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM936.html.
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