A review and a synthesis of the fast Fourier transform algorithms for exact analysis of discrete data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 321-336

  Hirji, Karim F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exact inference; Fast Fourier transform; Network algorithm; Power series distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISCRETE DATA PROBLEMS; MULTIWAY CONTINGENCY TABLE DATA; STRATIFIED LINEAR LOGISTIC MODELS;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

ALGORITHM; DISCRETE DATA MODEL; FOURIER TRANSFORM;

EID: 0031201017     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(97)00008-X     Document Type: Article

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