Beat the Mean: Sequential Selection by Better Than Average Rules

DOI10.1239/JAP/1208358965MaRDI QIDQ5459922zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abba M. Krieger, Moshe Pollak, 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

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

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