Fully sequential indifference-zone selection procedures with variance-dependent sampling

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 464-476

  Hong, L Jeff ^a  

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

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Indifference zone selection; Ranking and selection; Sequential analysis

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVARIANCE; SAMPLING;

INDIFFERENCE-ZONE SELECTION; RANKING AND SELECTION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATED SYSTEMS;

SEQUENTIAL MACHINES;

EID: 33746324532     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20155     Document Type: Article

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