On the theory of random search
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Date
1994-07Author
Onyango, Fredrick BO
Type
ThesisLanguage
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The problem of identifying one or more unknown
elements belonging to a finite set So' containing n
distinguishable elements is well known in literature.
Designs used in this kind of investigation are known
as search designs. Earlier work in this area was done
by Renyi (1965,1969,1970), Katona (1966), Dickson
(1969), Chakravarti and Manglik (1972), Chakravarti
(1976), Tosic (1980), Bush and Federer (1984) and Sebo
(1988).
In this thesis we consider the problem of developing
search designs for identifying one, two or three
unknown elements in the finite set Sn. The thesis is an
extension and generalization of the work done by Renyi
(1965), Chakravarti and Manglik (1972), Chakravarti
(1976) and Bush and Federer (1984).
Citation
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Statistics, University of Nairobi, 1994Publisher
University of Nairobi, Department of Mathematics