Samuel-Cahn, Ester - In: Stochastic Processes and their Applications 55 (1995) 2, pp. 315-327
We consider the best-choice secretary problem, with a known number, n, of applicants, and a random, independent "freeze" variable M, with known distribution. No hiring is possible after time M. The goal is to choose the best among the n applicants, where the decisions must be made depending only...