Herbert Robbins and sequential analysis

DOI10.1214/AOS/1051027870zbMATH Open1039.62075OpenAlexW2017548454MaRDI QIDQ1429307FDOQ1429307

Authors: David Siegmund 

Publication date: 18 May 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1051027870

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programming

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequential statistical analysis (62L10) Sequential estimation (62L12) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Optimal stopping in statistics (62L15)

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