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On the best order of observation in optimal stopping problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

David Gilat
David Gilat*
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University
*
∗Postal address: School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel.
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Abstract

For optimal stopping problems in which the player is allowed to choose the order of the random variables as well as the stopping rule, a notion of order equivalence is introduced. It is shown that different (non-degenerate) distributions cannot be order-equivalent.

This result unifies and generalizes two theorems of a similar nature recently obtained by Hill and Hordijk (1985).

Keywords

ORDER SELECTIONORDER EQUIVALENCE
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 773 - 778
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1987 

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