Abstract
Suppose that I1, I2, ⋯ is a sequence of independent Bernoulli random variables with E(In) = λ/(λ + n - 1), n = 1, 2, ⋯. If λ is a positive integer k, {In}n≥1 can be interpreted as a k-record process of a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with a common continuous distribution. When In-1I n = 1, we say that a consecutive k-record occurs at time n. It is known that the total number of consecutive k-records is Poisson distributed with mean k. In fact, for general λ > 0, ∑∞ n=2 In-1In is Poisson distributed with mean λ. In this paper, we want to find an optimal stopping time τλ which maximizes the probability of stopping at the last n such that I n-1In = 1. We prove that τλ is of threshold type, i.e. there exists a τλ ε ℕ such that τλ = min{n
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 739-760 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Advances in Applied Probability |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2010 Sep 1 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistics and Probability
- Applied Mathematics