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On stopping rules in proofreading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Chung-Wen Chow and
Zvi Schechner
Chung-Wen Chow*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Zvi Schechner*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, Seeley W. Mudd Building, New York, NY 10027, USA.
∗ Postal address: Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, Seeley W. Mudd Building, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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Abstract

Stopping rules in the context of proofreading are studied. Previous results by Yang et al. [6] are corrected and a computational procedure to obtain an optimal rule is presented.

Keywords

OPTIMAL STOPPINGk-STEP LOOK-AHEAD RULE

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Short Communications
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 1985, pp. 971 - 977
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

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Footnotes

This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-84-05413 to Columbia University.

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