Abstract: | Finitely many urns are filled with balls each having one of the labels 1,.Nin known proportions. Balls can be drawn with replacement from any urn at the cost of c>0 monetary units per drawing. Let X 4be the number of labels that show up in the first kdrawings. We solve the problem to find a selection rule for the urns to be used and a stopping rule such that E(X τ–eτ) is maximized. A second problem of this kind is also treated. |