Seminar: Ranking and Selection with Covariates
Date: Oct 6 (Fri), 2017
Time: 11:00am to 12:30pm
Venue: Room 6-208, 6/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building

We consider a new ranking and selection problem in which the performance of each alternative depends on some observable random covariates. The best alternative is thus not constant but depends on the values of the covariates. Assuming a linear model that relates the mean performance of an alternative and the covariates, we design selection procedures producing policies that represent the best alternative as a function in the covariates. We prove that the selection procedures can provide certain statistical guarantee, which is defined via a nontrivial generalization of the concept of probability of correct selection that is widely used in the conventional ranking and selection setting.

Event Speaker
Mr Haihui Shen

Mr. Haihui SHEN is a PhD student in the Department of Management Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. He has an MPhil Degree of Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor’s Degree of Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University. His research interests include ranking & selection, discrete optimization via simulation and kriging.