Acceptance-rejection sampling from the conditional distribution of independent discrete random variables, given their sum

Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 247-257

  Broström, Göran ^a   Nilsson, Leif ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bernoulli distribution; Bootstrap; Exponential families; Importance sampling; Proportional hazards; Simulation; Sufficiency; Survival analysis; Tilted distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347998579     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880008802716     Document Type: Article

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