| Article ID: | iaor1993362 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 91 |
| End Page Number: | 98 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1991 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Programming (Series A) |
| Authors: | Dorea Chang C.Y. |
When differentiability is not assumed random procedures can be successfully used to estimate the extreme values of a given function. For a class of such algorithms the paper treats the problem of estimating the mean effort.