Deficiency distance between multinomial and multivariate normal experiments

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 708-730

  Carter, Andrew V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deficiency distance; Density estimation; Multinomial distribution; Nonparametric experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036049656     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1028674839     Document Type: Article

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