On uniqueness and symmetry of self-consistent points of univariate continuous distributions

Journal of Classification

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 147-158

  Zoppè, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; K means cluster analysis; Normal distribution; Principal points; Uniform distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031510191     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003579900008     Document Type: Article

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