Optimal learning /

• Main Author: Powell, Warren B., 1955-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ryzhov, Ilya Olegovich, 1985-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2012]
• Series: Wiley series in probability and statistics.
• Subjects: Machine learning.; MATHEMATICS > Probability & Statistics > General.; Electronic books.

"This text presents optimal learning techniques with applications in energy, homeland security, health, sports, transportation science, biomedical research, biosurveillance, stochastic optimization, high technology, and complex resource allocation problems. The coverage utilizes a relatively ne...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• The Challenges of Learning
• Adaptive Learning
• The Economics of Information
• Ranking and Selection
• The Knowledge Gradient
• Bandit Problems
• Elements of a Learning Problem
• Linear Belief Models
• Subset Selection Problems
• Optimizing a Scalar Function
• Optimal Bidding
• Stopping Problems
• Active Learning in Statistics
• Simulation Optimization
• Learning in Mathematical Programming
• Optimizing Over Continuous Measurements
• Learning with a Physical State
• Bibliography
• Index
• Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics.