J Austral Math Soc Ser B 34 pp257--273, 1993.

The likely antecedents of improbable events: optimal search strategies

A. M. Fink and L. Bass

(Received 25 November 1990; revised 5 September 1991)

Abstract

We use the "Brownian Bridge" of Schrodinger to model a statistical search problem in which the initial and final distributions of random motion are given. We raise the question of how to use this information to optimally reconstruct a likely past event.

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Authors

A. M. Fink: Permanent address: Mathematics Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
L. Bass: Mathematics Department, University of Queensland, Australia.

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