Pin-Yuen Chen

Least-Favorable Location for Binomial Top-$t$ Selection

Consider $k$ independent Bernoulli populations, each sampled $n$ times, and select the $t$ populations with the largest success counts, breaking ties uniformly. Classical monotonicity reduces the worst case over the preference zone with separation $\delta$ to the slippage family with levels $p$ and $p+\delta$, leaving...