Estimating the Probability that a Function Observed with Noise Is Convex

DOI10.1287/IJOC.2018.0847MaRDI QIDQ3386772zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nanjing Jian, Shane G. Henderson

Publication date 7 January 2021

Published in INFORMS Journal on Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04185

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian sequential modelsconditional Monte Carloconvexity detectionlikelihood ratiovariance reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX)

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• A method for convex black-box integer global optimization
• On the optimal design of the randomized unbiased Monte Carlo estimators
• On the Estimation of a Convex Set From Noisy Data on Its Support Function
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• Posterior-Based Stopping Rules for Bayesian Ranking-and-Selection Procedures
• convexity

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Uses Software

• Gurobi
• CVX
• CopulaModel
• BayesDA
• linprog
• GitHub

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