Sequential Estimation of the Mean of a Multinormal Population
多元正态总体均值的序贯估计
This article is a multivariate generalization of the sequential sampling procedure developed by Robbins (1959) and extended by Starr (1966b) for estimating the mean of a normal population when the scale parameter is unknown. The exact distribution of the stopping time is derived for the sequential procedure, and a recursive method for computing the distribution of the stopping time is proposed that can be easily programmed for mechanical calculation. It is shown that the…