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Research supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant NSF-G14146 at Columbia University.
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Chow, Y.S., Robbins, H. On optimal stopping rules. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 2, 33–49 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00535296
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