• DocumentCode
    964682
  • Title

    Distribution of a random walk with an application to a truncated nonparametric sequential test

  • Author

    Tantaratana, Sawasd

  • Author_Institution
    Auburn University, Auburn, AL
  • Volume
    69
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1981
  • Firstpage
    1582
  • Lastpage
    1584
  • Abstract
    Explicit expressions for the probability of reaching a given position at each stage of a random walk are derived for the case of absorbing boundaries. Utilizing these results, exact expressions for the power function and the average sample number function of a truncated nonparametric sequential test are obtained. Some numerical examples are also given.
  • Keywords
    Parametric statistics; Probability density function; Quantization; Robustness; Sequential analysis; Signal detection; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Symmetric matrices; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1981.12208
  • Filename
    1456476