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Statistica Sinica 7(1997), 211-220


THE EVOLUTION OF A PROBLEM


Henry S. Baird and Colin L. Mallows


Bell Laboratories, AT & T Laboratories


Dedicated to Herbert Robbins on the occasion of his 80th birthday


Abstract: This paper describes several problems, all arising from one real-world problem. Some of these problems have been solved, others offer interesting challenges.



Key words and phrases: Decision trees, Good-Turing, OCR, optimal stopping.



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