Optimal Selection from a Random Sequence with Learning of the Underlying Distribution

DOI10.2307/2286279zbMath0394.62063OpenAlexW4250581518MaRDI QIDQ4176866

Theodor J. Stewart

Publication date: 1978

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2286279

zbMATH Keywords

Uniform DistributionSecretary ProblemBaysian Inference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal stopping in statistics (62L15)

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