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Online Gambling of Pure Chance: Wager Distribution, Risk Attitude, and Anomalous Diffusion

Online gambling sites offer many different gambling games. In this work we analyse the gambling logs of numerous solely probability-based gambling games and extract the wager and odds distributions. We find that the log-normal distribution describes the wager distribution at the aggregate level. Vie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wang, Xiangwen, Pleimling, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6789128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31604970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50168-2
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Sumario:Online gambling sites offer many different gambling games. In this work we analyse the gambling logs of numerous solely probability-based gambling games and extract the wager and odds distributions. We find that the log-normal distribution describes the wager distribution at the aggregate level. Viewing the gamblers’ net incomes as random walks, we study the mean-squared displacement of net income and related quantities and find different diffusive behaviors for different games. We discuss possible origins for the observed anomalous diffusion.