The secretary problem: minimizing the expected rank with I.I.D. random variables

DOI10.2307/1428183zbMath0857.60039OpenAlexW2331291481MaRDI QIDQ4715308

David Assaf, Ester Samuel-Cahn

Publication date: 3 March 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1428183

zbMATH Keywords

failure ratecalculus of variationsstopping rulesecretary problemfull informationthreshold ruleindifference on boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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