A central limit theorem for conditionally centred random fields with an application to Markov fields

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 608-621

  Comets, Francis ^a   Janžura, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Conditional centring; Markov random fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040081114     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200016260     Document Type: Article

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