Optimal selection based on relative ranks with a random number of individuals

DOI10.2307/1426856zbMATH Open0437.60035OpenAlexW2318812627MaRDI QIDQ3878465FDOQ3878465

Authors: J. Gianini Pettitt 

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1426856

zbMATH Keywords

optimal stoppingsecretary problemrelative ranksbest choice problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory (60G40)

Cited In (4)

• A unified approach for solving sequential selection problems
• Objectives in the Best-Choice Problems
• Selection of nonextremal candidates from a random sequence
• The best choice problem with random arrivals: how to beat the \(1 / e\)-strategy

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