Bounds on measures satisfying moment conditions

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1114-1137

  Lasserre, Jean B ^a  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Geometric probability; Moment problem; Probability; Tchebycheff bounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036387295     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1031863183     Document Type: Article

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