An adaptive rule for stopping a discovery process under time censorship

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2328-2335

  Bellout, Djamel ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Adaptive rule; Infinitesimal generator; Markov process; Payoff; Stopping time

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947241761     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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