Optimal stopping behavior with relative ranks: The secretary problem with unknown population size

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 391-411

  Seale, Darryl A ^a   Rapoport, Amnon ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate problem; Experiment; Human subjects; Individual decision making; Optimal selection; Optimal stopping; Relative ranks; Search cost; Secretary problem; Sequential observation; Sequential search; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044524940     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-0771(200010/12)13:4<391::AID-BDM359>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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