| The Secretary Problem of Minimizing Expected Rank: A Simple Suboptimal Approach with Generalizations | |||||||
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| The secretary problem for selecting one item so as to minimize its expected rank, based on observing the relative ranks only, is revisited. A simple suboptimal rule, which performs almost as well as the optimal rule, is given. The rule stops with the smallest i such that Ri | |||||||
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