Optimal Selection from a Random Sequence with Learning of the Underlying Distribution

DOI10.2307/2286279MaRDI QIDQ4176866zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Theodor J. Stewart

Publication date 1978

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2286279

zbMATH Keywords

Baysian InferenceSecretary ProblemUniform Distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal stopping in statistics (62L15)

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