On the full information best-choice problem

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 678-687

  Gnedin, Alexander V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Best choick problem; Poisson process; Records

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030519099     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200100117     Document Type: Article

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