Sequential analysis of environmental monitoring data: Optimal SPRTs

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-41

  Schipper, Maria ^a   Den Hartog, Jolanda ^a   Meelis, Evert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

environmental monitoring; minimax; sequential analysis; SPRT

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MINIMAX METHOD; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030612908     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199701)8:1<29::AID-ENV236>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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