Some locally optimal subset selection rules for comparison with a control (Q792034)

The authors suggest a selection procedure for selecting all populations better than a control population, and they show that it is locally optimal in a certain sense. However, their optimality requirement leads to a peculiar optimum rule: (i) If there is a clearly inferior population, then all the others are selected with high probability, whether they are superior or not, (ii) if there is a clearly superior population, then, with high probability, no other population, superior or not, is selected. Another treatment of the problem can be found in the reviewer's paper, Commun. Stat., Theory Methods A10, 203-221 (1981; Zbl 0468.62025).