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I prefer to pick that sort of thing up from mathematical texts or a textbook.

The principles are pretty simple from a probabilistic perspective: it's just a matter of making inferences from the available information and choosing an optimal course of action from that. Information theory provides a nice framework for this basis, imo.

You can find this introduction (including topics like Kelly's criterion etc) in Cover's Elements of Information Theory, a good introduction to information theory in general if you like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_and_information_theor...




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