Approximation to optimal stopping rules for gamma random variables with unknown location and scale parameters

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 775-784

  Chen, Juei Chao ^a   Lee, Shen Ming ^b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Last times; Optimal stopping; Uniform integrability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034910225     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100002151     Document Type: Article

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