| Article ID: | iaor19932394 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 357 |
| End Page Number: | 362 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1991 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis |
| Authors: | Rekab Kamel |
| Keywords: | statistics: distributions |
The problem of designing an experiment to estimate the product of the means of two normal populations is considered. A Bayesian approach is adopted in which the product of the means is estimated by its posterior mean. A fully sequential design is proposed and shown to be asymptotically optimal.