Compare the ratio of symmetric polynomials of odds to one and stop
Tomomi Matsui, Katsunori Ano · Journal of Applied Probability · 2017
Abstract In this paper we deal with an optimal stopping problem whose objective is to maximize the probability of selecting k out of the last ℓ successes, given a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials of length N, where k and ℓ are predetermined integers satisfying 1≤k≤ℓ