A woman wishes to sell a car within the next 4 weeks. She expects to receive one
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A woman wishes to sell a car within the next 4 weeks. She expects to receive one bid or offer each week from a prospective buyer. The weekly offer is a random variable, which has the following stationary probability distribution:
Once the woman accepts an offer, the bidding stops. Her objective is to maximize her expected total income over a 4-week planning horizon.
(a) Formulate this optimal stopping problem as a unichain MDP.
(b) Use value iteration to find an optimal policy which will specify when to accept or reject an offer during each week of the planning horizon.
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a Formulating the Optimal Stopping Problem as a Unichain MDP To formulate this problem as a Markov Decision Process MDP we need to define its states a...View the full answer
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