Zonoids, linear dependence, and size-biased distributions on the simplex

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 871-884

  Dall'Aglio, Marco ^a   Scarsini, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compositional variables; Concordance order; Linear dependence; Marshall Olkin distribution; Multivariate size biased distribution; Zonoid; Zonotope

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

COMPOSITIONAL VARIABLES; CONCORDANCE ORDER; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; MARSHALL-OLKIN DISTRIBUTION; ZONOID; ZONOTYPES;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0345376258     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1067436324     Document Type: Article

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