Optimal stopping of sequential size-dependent search
规模依赖序贯搜索的最优停止
In many areas of application, one searches within finite populations for items of interest, where the probability of sampling an item is proportional to a random size attribute from an i.i.d. superpopulation of attributes which may or may not be observable upon discovery. Here we treat the problem of asymptotically optimal stopping rules for size-dependent searches of this type, as the size of the underlying population grows, where the loss function includes an…