Strong approximations of martingale vectors and their applications in markov-chain adaptive designs

Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 337-352

  Zhang, Li Xin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Asymptotic properties; Martingale; Non homogenous Markov chain; Strong approximation; Wiener processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044456418     PISSN: 01689673     EISSN: 16183932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10255-004-0173-z     Document Type: Article

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