Optimal stopping and sequential tests which minimize the maximum expected sample size

DOI10.1214/aos/1176342461zbMath0261.62062MaRDI QIDQ2560697

Tze Leung Lai

Publication date: 1973

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176342461

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62L10: Sequential statistical analysis

62L15: Optimal stopping in statistics

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