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by didgeoridoo
1046 days ago
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That average is still greater than $100, because you haven’t yet hit the Kelly point beyond which the downside catastrophe dominates. Play it out a few more rounds and see where the average heads to. [Edit: delete bad math] |
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heads: double your money tails: lose all your money
in which case the expected value is always $1, as you have a 1/2^n chance of having $2^n dollars after n rounds, and 0 otherwise.
The point of discussing ergodicity here, however, is whether you can describe the behavior of the iterated distribution deterministically if you exclude a portion of that distribution which has measure zero.