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Add MS 86644
- Record Id:
- 040-000454416
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000228.0x0003c1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86644
- Title:
- Probability Matching
- Scope & Content:
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Folder marked 'Harley, Houston, P-matching etc'.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Calvin Harley (Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco and Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University) relating to an article in Nature; 24 Aug 1981.
- Letter from Calvin Harley to Maynard Smith with copy of a letter to Dr. McCleary and Dr. Houston. Also attached is the handwritten manuscript 'Why learn the ESS?'; 11 Nov 1981.
- Letter from Calvin Harley to Maynard Smith relating to probability matching. Enclosed is a copy of the typescript 'Evolutionarily stable DNA'; 14 Apr 1982.
- Letter from Calvin Harley to Maynard Smith with notes on draft of learning rule; 2 Sep 1982.
- Letter from Calvin Harley to Maynard Smith relating to concurrent VI game with handwritten notes by Maynard Smith; 19 Nov 1982. Attached is a letter by John Maynard Smith to Harley; 2 Apr 1982.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Alasdair McCleary (Department of Zoology, Animal Behaviour Research Group, Oxford); 26 Nov 1981.
- Calvin B.Hartley , 'Learning the evolutionarily stable strategy', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 89 (1981), 611-633.
- James E.Mazur, 'Optimization theory fails to predict performance of pigeons in a two-response situation', Science, 214 (1981), 823-5.
Loose items:
- W.G.S. Hines and D.T. Bishop, 'On learning and the evolutionary stable strategy', 1982. Statistical Series, University of Guelph, Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Calvin B. Harley, 'Learning the evolutionary stable strategy', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 89 (1981), 611-633.
- John McNamara and Alasdair Houston, 'The application of statistical decision theory to animal behaviour', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 85 (1980), 673-690.
- Alasdair Houston and John McNamara, 'How to maximise reward rate on two variable-interval paradigms', Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour, 3 (1981), 367-396.
- Alasdair Houston, 'Optimality theory and matching', Behavioural Analysis Letters, 3 (1983), 1-15.
- J. E. R. Staddon, 'On Herrnstein's equation and related forms', Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour, 28 (1977), 163-170.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000454416 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86644 : Probability Matching - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0049]/040-000454416
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 sub-folder and 6 loose items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1977
- End Date:
- 1983
- Date Range:
- 1977-1983
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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