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

DOI10.2307/1426856MaRDI QIDQ3878465zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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