Beat the Mean: Sequential Selection by Better Than Average Rules

DOI10.1239/jap/1208358965zbMath1137.62055OpenAlexW2053601726MaRDI QIDQ5459922

Moshe Pollak, Abba M. Krieger, Ester Samuel-Cahn

Publication date: 30 April 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1208358965

zbMATH Keywords

asymptoticsaverageselection rulesequential observations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequential statistical methods (62L99) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10) Statistical ranking and selection procedures (62F07) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

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