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Abstract: This article deals with a risk probability minimization problem for finite horizon continuous-time Markov decision processes with unbounded transition rates and history-dependent policies.

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Business, like many other fields, can benefit from the use of statistics in estimating or predicting future events. An important tool for business statistics is a confidence interval, which helps a ...

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