Curtailment procedure for selecting among Bernoulli populations

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1085-1102

  Buzaianu, Elena M ^a   Chen, Pinyuen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bernoulli population; Binomial distribution; Curtailment; Probability of correct selection; Ranking and selection; Sample size

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS;

BERNOULLI POPULATION; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CURTAILMENT; SAMPLE SIZES;

SAMPLING;

EID: 39049142241     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701713187     Document Type: Article

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