Optimal Sequentially Planned Decision Procedures

von Norbert Schmitz

207 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Learning from experience, making decisions on the basis of the available information, and proceeding step by step to a desired goal are fundamental behavioural qualities of human beings. Nevertheless, it was not until the early 1940's that such a statistical theory - namely Sequential Analysis - was created, which allows us to investigate this kind of behaviour in a precise manner. A. Wald's famous sequential probability ratio test (SPRT; see example (1.8» turned out to have an enormous influence on the development of this theory. On the one hand, Wald's fundamental monograph "Sequential Analysis" ([Wa]*) is essentially centered around this test. On the other hand, important properties of the SPRT - e.g. Bayes optimality, minimax-properties, "uniform" optimality with respect to expected sample sizes - gave rise to the development of a general statistical decision theory. As a conse quence, the SPRT's played a dominating role in the further development of sequential analysis and, more generally, in theoretical statistics.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Statistics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Mathematik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik
• ISBN: 9780387979083
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.10.1992
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer US
• Unterstützt von: G. Duscha, J. Lübbert, T. Meyerthole