Statistical selection procedures are used to select the best of a finite set of alternatives, where “best” is defined in terms of each alternative’s unknown expected value, and the expected values are inferred through statistical sampling. One effective approach, which is based on a Bayesian probability model for the unknown mean performance of each alternative, allocates samples based on maxim...

sunn pest, eurygaster integriceps put., is the most important pest of wheat and barley in most producing regions of iran, including lorestan province. spatial distribution and fixed precision sequential sampling plans of sunn pest by the use of two quadrate sizes 0.25 and 0.5 m2 were investigated in rainfed wheat fields in borujerd during 2004 and 2005. based on r square of regression, taylor&a...

The purpose of this paper is to derive optimal rules for sequential mastery tests. In a sequential mastery test, the decision is to classify a subject as a master, a nonmaster, or to continue sampling and administering another random item. The framework of minimax sequential decision theory (minimum information approach) is used; that is, optimal rules are obtained by minimizing the maximum exp...