Application of numerical interval analysis to obtain self-validating results for multivariate probabilities in a massively parallel environment

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 163-171

  Wang, Ouhong ^a   Kennedy, William J ^b  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer programming; Numerical analysis; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042731244     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018582017973     Document Type: Article

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