The best-choice secretary problem with random freeze on jobs

DOI10.1016/0304-4149(94)00042-RzbMath0821.60051MaRDI QIDQ1346162

Ester Samuel-Cahn

Publication date: 18 September 1995

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

best choice problemrandom number of applicants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory (60G40) Optimal stopping in statistics (62L15)

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