The life and work of gustav elfving

Statistical Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 174-196

  Nordström, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Complex analysis; Decision theory; Expansion of distributions; Markov chains; Multivariate distribution theory; Nonparametric statistics; Optimal design of experiments; Optimal stopping; Order statistics; Quality control; Sufficiency and completeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042224448     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1009212244     Document Type: Article

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