Characterization of maximum probability points in the Multivariate Hypergeometric distribution

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-47

  Requena, F ^a   Ciudad, N Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mode* 2 c contingency table; Multivariate Hypergeometric distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042278534     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00079-1     Document Type: Article

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