The Kelly criterion is a formula for sizing a sequence of financial or gambling bets by maximizing the long-term expected value of the logarithm of wealth, equivalent to maximizing the long-term expected geometric growth rate. It was described in 1956 by John Larry Kelly Jr., a researcher at Bell Labs, and is used to guide risk allocation across a sequence of repeated wagers or investments. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearJohn Larry Kelly Jr. described the criterion in 1956 Connections
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1. Kelly Criterion (Wikipedia)
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