ABSTRACT
The history of selection procedures dates back to the 1950s. The first such procedures considered were based on k independent samples of equal sam ple sizes. An overview and thorough discussions of these early procedures, and of the development of numerous branches of the theory of selection thereafter until 1979, is provided in the by now classical monograph by Gupta and Panchapakesan (1979). In celebration of “40 Years of Statistical Selection Theory,” and its pioneers Robert E. Bechhofer, Shanti S. Gupta, and Milton Sobel, a conference was held on September 5-10, 1993, at Bad Doberan in Germany, and the proceedings were included in a special journal issue, edited by Miescke and Rasch (1996).
