A note on proximity of distributions in terms of coinciding moments

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 145, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 195-203

  Tagliani, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hankel matrix; Levy and Zolotarev distance; Maximum entropy; Moments; Proximity of distributions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ENTROPY; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SET THEORY;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 0042522647     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00477-0     Document Type: Article

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