Abstract
The distribution of the number of items drawn in a secretary problem, with an order s selection role and a success if any of the best s items is selected, is obtained by a probabilistic argument. Moments and asymptotics readily follow.
- Title
- Duration of a secretary problem
- Authors/Creators
- G.F. Yeo (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Applied Probability, Vol.34(2), pp.556-558
- Publisher
- University of Sheffield
- Identifiers
- 991005543326807891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article