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Explain the following terms as applied in competitive situations: i) Degeneracy ii) Pure strategy iii) Mixed strategy iv) Dominance rule

      

Explain the following terms as applied in competitive situations:
i) Degeneracy
ii) Pure strategy
iii) Mixed strategy
iv) Dominance rule

  

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Kavungya
(i) Degeneracy
This is a term in transportation and assignment which refers to a situation where the
number of occupied cells is less than n + m – 1 where n is the number of rows and
m is the number of columns.

(ii) Pure Strategy
In a game matrix represent the row and column whose intersection is the saddle
point. In a pure strategy player X will play one row all of the time and player Y will
also play one of his column all the time.

(iii) Mixed Strategy
Consist of a probability mixture of more than one strategy. The objective in a
mixed strategy involves preparing the opponent from knowing which strategy is
used on a given play. This is accomplished by selecting the strategy to be used for
each play at random, according to probabilities that can be computed from the game
matrix.

(iv) Dominance rule
This rule states that there are strategies that a given player would never play,
irrespective of what the other player does. The strategies which are always avoided
are said to be dominated by the other strategies and can be left out from the
analysis.
Kavungya answered the question on May 7, 2021 at 05:23


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