Optimum Sample Size for a Problem in Choosing the Population with the Largest Mean
选择均值最大总体问题中的最优样本量
Given k + 1 normal populations, identically distributed with a common known variance σ2 and unknown means, it is required to select N individuals in two stages as follows. In the first stage, n individuals are selected from each of the populations. In the second stage, the remaining N —n(k+1) individuals are selected from the population producing the largest mean in the first stage. A cost unique to the first stage is C(n) = c 0+c 1 na , where C 0, c 1 and α are positive…