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Avviso di seminario

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA
DIPARTIMENTO DI STATISTICA
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			    AVVISO  DI  SEMINARIO


Giovedì 15 aprile 2004, alle ore 14.30, presso l'Aula Tesi della Facoltà di 
Scienze
Statistiche (Edificio U/7, secondo piano, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 
Milano)

				R.P. GUPTA
                              (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)

terrà un seminario dal titolo:

                 THE SECRETARY PROBLEM AND ITS EXTENSIONS:
                                              A REVIEW

	
Abstract:

In Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the February 1960 issue of
Scientific American, there appeared a simple problem that has come to be known
today as the Secretary Problem, or the Marriage Problem. It has since been 
taken
up and developed by many eminent probabilists and statisticians and has been
extended and generalized in many different directions so that now one can 
say that
it constitutes a "field" within mathematics-probability-optimization. The 
object of this
talk is partly historical (to give a fresh view of the origins of the 
problem, touching upon
Cayley and Kepler), partly review of the field (listing the subfields of 
recent interest),
partly serious (to answer the question posed in the title), and partly 
entertainment.





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