Rounding probabilities: Unbiased multipliers

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 373-382

  Happacher, Max ^a   Pukelsheim, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apportionment methods; categorical data; discrepancy; experimental designs; multiplier methods of rounding; p mean rounding; q stationary rounding; standard rounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007243878     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.1996.14.4.373     Document Type: Article

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