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Some tests for non-optimal actions in Markov decision problems with absorption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Gerhard Hübner
Gerhard Hübner*
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University of Hamburg
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1978 , pp. 309 - 310
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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