A PROBLEM IN THE SEQUENTIAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

THE PROBLEM OF DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL TESTING POLICY WHERE ONE SIMULTANEOUSLY GAINS AND LEARNS FOR THE CASE WHERE THE OUTCOME OF ONE CHOICE IS KNOWN AND THE OTHER IS SUBJECT TO A KNOWN A PRIORI DISTRIBUTION IS CONSIDERED. Results of Johnson and Karlin, P-328, are obtained in a different way and extended. The methods used are applicable to more general processes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 20, 1954
Accession Number
AD0604563

Entities

People

  • Richard E. Bellman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Experimental Design
  • Inequalities
  • Information Science
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Sequences
  • Sequential Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.