Accession Number:

ADA063968

Title:

Optimal Sequential and Non-Sequential Procedures for Evaluating a Functional.

Descriptive Note:

Technical summary rept.,

Corporate Author:

WISCONSIN UNIV-MADISON MATHEMATICS RESEARCH CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Gal,Shmuel
• Micchelli,Charles A.

Report Date:

1978-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

20.0

Abstract:

In this paper we identify a class of estimation problems in which sequential estimation procedures do not yield a better rate of convergence than procedures in which all the observations are preassigned in advance. Author

Descriptors:

• *SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS
• *CONVERGENCE
• RECOVERY
• OPTIMIZATION
• ESTIMATES
• SEARCHING
• OPERATORS(MATHEMATICS)
• SPLINES(GEOMETRY)

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE