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Optimality of the one step look-ahead stopping times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

M. Abdel-Hameed
M. Abdel-Hameed*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Abstract

The optimality of the one step look-ahead stopping rule is shown to hold under conditions different from those discussed by Chow, Robbins and Seigmund [5]. These results are corollaries of the following theorem: Let {Xn , n = 0, 1, …}; X 0 = x be a discrete-time homogeneous Markov process with state space (E, ℬ). For any ℬ-measurable function g and α in (0, 1], define Aαg(x) = αExg(X 1) – g(x) to be the infinitesimal generator of g. If τ is any stopping time satisfying the conditions: Ex [αNg(XN )I(τ > N)]→0 as as N → ∞, then Applications of the results are considered.

Keywords

OPTIMAL STOPPING TIMESMARKOV TIMESDISCRETE-TIME HOMOGENEOUS MARKOV PROCESSESNON-HOMOGENEOUS MARKOV PROCESSESINCREASING FUNCTIONSROOT-INCREASING FUNCTIONSINFINITESIMAL GENERATORS

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 162 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1977 

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