Distributions most nearly compatible with given families of conditional distributions

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Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 377-390

  Arnold, Barry C ^a   Gokhale, D V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional specification; Discrete multivariate distributions; Incompatible conditionals; Iterative scaling; Kullback Leibler information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005429536     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02565119     Document Type: Article

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