Optimal transportation plans and convergence in distribution

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-83

  Cuesta Albertos, J A ^a   Matran C ^b   Tuero Diaz A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consistency; Convergence in distribution; Maximal monotone operators; Monge Kantorovich transportation problem; Monotone dependence; Optimal transportation plans; Skorohod almost sure representation; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030693415     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.1627     Document Type: Article

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