In the study of stochastic processes in mathematics, a disorder problem or quickest detection problem (formulated by Kolmogorov) is the problem of using ongoing observations of a stochastic process to detect as soon as possible when the probabilistic properties of the process have changed.
This is a type of change detection problem.
An example case is to detect the change in the drift parameter of a Wiener process.
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