Sequential Methods and Their Applications

DOI10.1201/9781420010022zbMath1277.62024MaRDI QIDQ3534767

Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Basil M. De Silva

Publication date: 5 November 2008

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420010022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics

62Pxx: Applications of statistics

62Lxx: Sequential statistical methods

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