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The hazards of optimal proofreading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Luke Tierney
Luke Tierney*
Affiliation:
Carnegie-Mellon University
*
∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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Abstract

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In a recent paper (Yang et al. (1982)) a model for proofreading was proposed in which a reader has a fixed probability p of detecting a misprint in a document containing a Poisson number of errors. This note points out that the conclusions derived from such a model can be extremely misleading if the probability of detecting a misprint varies from one misprint to another.

Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 892 - 893
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1983 

References

Yang, M. C. K., Wackerly, D. D. and Rosalsky, A. (1982) Optimal stopping rules in proofreading. J. Appl. Prob. 19, 723–729.CrossRefGoogle Scholar