Constructions of random distributions via sequential barycenters

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1242-1253

  Hill, Theodore ^a   Monticino, Michael ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution of mass; Random distributions; Random homeomorphisms; Random probability measures; Sequential barycenter arrays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032358272     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691241     Document Type: Article

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