Accession Number:

ADA027785

Title:

Optimality of the One Step Lock-Ahead Stopping Times.

Descriptive Note:

Interim rept.,

Corporate Author:

NORTH CAROLINA UNIV AT CHARLOTTE DEPT OF MATHEMATICS

Personal Author(s):

• Abdel-Hameed,M.

Report Date:

1976-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

18.0

Abstract:

Optimal stopping rules play an important rule in probability and statistics. A comprehensive treatment of the subject is given in the book Great Expectations The Theory of Optimal Stopping, by Chow, Robbins, and Seigmund. The one step look-ahead stopping is discussed in pp. 52-57 of the book. This paper shows that such rules are optimal under conditions different from those given by Chow, Robbins and Seigmund.

Descriptors:

• *OPTIMIZATION
• *STOPPING RULES(MATHEMATICS)
• MARKOV PROCESSES
• THEOREMS
• INEQUALITIES

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE