A unified treatment of the theory of 'stopping times' for probability theorists and statisticians.

The theory of stochastic processes indexed by a partially ordered set has been the subject of much research over the past twenty years. The objective of this CI

Self-contained presentation: from elementary material to state-of-the-art research; Much of the theory in book-form for the first time; Connections are made bet

This book presents the theory of rational decisions involving the selection of stopping times in observed discrete-time stochastic processes, both by single and