A randomly reinforced urn

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2005.08.009zbMath1090.62082OpenAlexW2087221920MaRDI QIDQ2492926

Anna Maria Paganoni, Piercesare Secchi, Pietro Muliere

Publication date: 9 June 2006

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2005.08.009

zbMATH Keywords

reinforced processesurn schemesgambling theorysequential clinical trialstwo-armed bandit problemsasymptotic exchangeability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Sequential statistical design (62L05)

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