• Fair random assignment (also called probabilistic one-sided matching) is a kind of a fair division problem. In an assignment problem (also called house-allocation...
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  • applications. One such application is for the problem of fair random assignment: given a randomized allocation of items, Birkhoff's algorithm can decompose...
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  • Random priority (RP), also called Random serial dictatorship (RSD), is a procedure for fair random assignment - dividing indivisible items fairly among...
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  • Simultaneous eating algorithm (category Fair division protocols)
    developed by Hervé Moulin and Anna Bogomolnaia as a solution for the fair random assignment problem, where the fraction that each agent receives of each item...
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  • profile is (3.5, 2). When the decision process is random, such as in fair random assignment or random social choice or fractional approval voting, there...
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  • Ordinal Pareto efficiency (category Random variable ordering)
    Moulin: 302–303  present an efficiency notion for the setting of fair random assignment (where the bundle rankings are additive, the allocations are fractional...
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  • House allocation problem (category Fair item allocation)
    ex-ante; see fair random assignment for other randomized mechanisms which are ex-ante PE. When each agent already owns a house, fairness considerations...
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  • Envy-freeness (category Fairness criteria)
    envy-free matching. Using randomization to find allocations that are envy-free in expectation ("ex-ante"); see fair random assignment. Strong envy-freeness...
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  • apartment). Fair river sharing – dividing waters flowing in an international river among the countries along its stream. Fair random assignment – dividing...
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    definitions of randomness, typically assuming that there is some 'objective' probability distribution. In statistics, a random variable is an assignment of a numerical...
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  • the larger population. Random Allocation in Experimental Design: Random assignment of experimental units to treatment or control conditions is fundamental...
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  • harmony - a fair division problem where indivisible items and a fixed total cost have to be divided simultaneously. Fair random assignment - a fair division...
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  • produces distorted probabilities relative to the uniform-random matching. Fair random assignment - one-sided matching - allocating items to agents with...
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    A random variable (also called random quantity, aleatory variable, or stochastic variable) is a mathematical formalization of a quantity or object which...
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    various psychological sources of bias.[citation needed] The randomness in the assignment of participants to treatments reduces selection bias and allocation...
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    that the coin is fair). More commonly, probability distributions are used to compare the relative occurrence of many different random values. Probability...
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  • the protocol that specifies the random assignment of treatments to subjects; the protocol's description of the assignment mechanism should include a specification...
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  • Rental harmony (category Fair item allocation)
    monetary transfers: Fair random assignment - each agent should get a single object; fairness is attained using randomization. House allocation problem...
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  • Hervé Moulin (category Fair division researchers)
    and assignment problems. In particular, jointly with Anna Bogomolnaia, he proposed the probabilistic-serial procedure as a solution to the fair random assignment...
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  • Randomness has multiple uses in science, art, statistics, cryptography, gaming, gambling, and other fields. For example, random assignment in randomized...
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    Fisher–Yates shuffle (category Randomized algorithms)
    shared memory. The algorithm generates a random permutations uniformly so long as the hardware operates in a fair manner. In 2015, Bacher et al. produced...
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  • Course allocation (category Fair item allocation)
    Additionally, the algorithm has no fairness guarantees. Other mechanisms for course allocation use fair random assignment. Kominers, Scott Duke; Ruberry,...
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  • Anna Bogomolnaia (category Fair division researchers)
    and on randomized solutions to assignment problems. With Hervé Moulin she formulated the probabilistic-serial procedure for solving the fair random assignment...
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  • Lexicographic dominance (category Random variable ordering)
    envy-freeness. Hosseini and Larson analyse the properties of rules for fair random assignment based on lexicographic dominance. Chakrabarty, Deeparnab; Swamy...
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  • either "approve" or "reject" each alternative. In the context of fair item assignment, DP can be represented by a mathematical logic formula:: 292  for...
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    single occurrences or evolve over time in a random fashion). Although it is not possible to perfectly predict random events, much can be said about their behavior...
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    {\displaystyle {\bar {X}}_{n}} denote the sample mean (which is itself a random variable). Then the limit as n → ∞ {\displaystyle n\to \infty } of the distribution...
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    even more efficient to calculate a random permutation in advance. This avoids communication costs for each assignment. There is no longer a need for a distribution...
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    Variance (redirect from Random variance)
    variance is the expected value of the squared deviation from the mean of a random variable. The standard deviation (SD) is obtained as the square root of...
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  • Truthful resource allocation (category Fair division protocols)
    Bogomolnaia, Anna; Moulin, Hervé (2001). "A New Solution to the Random Assignment Problem". Journal of Economic Theory. 100 (2): 295. doi:10.1006/jeth...
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