Estimation of Rényi exponents in random cascades

Bernoulli

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-207

  Troutman, Brent M ^a   Vecchia, Aldo V ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Least squares estimation; Multifractal; Multiplicative process; Random cascade; R nyi exponent; Scaling exponent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001066073     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318431     Document Type: Article

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