Woodroofe's one-armed bandit problem revisited

DOI10.1214/08-AAP589zbMath1168.62071arXiv0909.0119OpenAlexW3106279838MaRDI QIDQ835072

Alexander Goldenshluger, Assaf J. Zeevi

Publication date: 27 August 2009

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0119

zbMATH Keywords

minimaxestimationonline learningregretbandit problemssequential allocationinferior sampling raterate-optimal policy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimax procedures in statistical decision theory (62C20) Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory (60G40) Sequential statistical design (62L05)

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