Bayesian look ahead one-stage sampling allocations for selection of the best population

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-244

  Gupta, Shanti S ^a   Miescke, Klaus J ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian look ahead; Normal populations; Optimum sampling allocations; Selection and ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030590294     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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