On Chernoff's Hypotheses Testing Problem for the Drift of a Brownian Motion

Abstract

This paper contains detailed exposition of the results presented in the short communication [M. V. Zhitlukhin and A. A. Muravlev, Russian Math. Surveys, 66 (2011), pp. 1012--1013]. We consider Chernoff's problem of sequential testing of two hypotheses about the sign of the drift of a Brownian motion under the assumption that it is normally distributed. We obtain an integral equation which characterizes the optimal decision rule and find its solution numerically.