The sample complexity of search over multiple populations

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5039-5050

  Malloy, Matthew L ^a   Tang, Gongguo ^a   Nowak, Robert D ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased coin; CUSUM procedure; multiarmed bandit; quickest search; rare events; sequential analysis; sequential thresholding; sparse recovery; spectrum sensing; SPRT

Indexed keywords

BIASED COIN; CUSUM PROCEDURE; MULTI ARMED BANDIT; QUICKEST SEARCH; RARE EVENTS; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SPARSE RECOVERY; SPECTRUM SENSING; SPRT; THRESHOLDING;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION THEORY;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84880529599     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2013.2258071     Document Type: Article

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