Published August 1992
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Journal Article
Laws of large numbers for dynamical systems with randomly matched individuals
- Creators
- Boylan, Richard T.
Abstract
Biologists and economists have analyzed populations where each individual interacts with randomly selected individuals. The random matching generates a very complicated stochastic system. Consequently biologists and economists have approximated such a system with a deterministic system. The justification for such an approximation is that the population is assumed to be very large and thus some law of large numbers must hold. This paper gives a characterization of random matching schemes for countably infinite populations. In particular this paper shows that there exists a random matching scheme such that the stochastic system and the deterministic system are the same.
Additional Information
© 1992 Academic Press. Received November 26, 1990; revised September 26, 1991. This paper could not have been written without the help of Roko Aliprantis and especially Kim Border. I also thank for their help: Mahmoud El-Gamal, Richard McKelvey, John Nachbar, Stanley Sawyer, Thomas Wolff, the associate editor, and the referee. Financial support was provided by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Fellowship and the Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship and is duly appreciated. This paper is based on Chapter 2 of my dissertation.Additional details
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- 81174
- DOI
- 10.1016/0022-0531(92)90046-K
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170906-075526857
- John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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