Characterizing and approximating infinite scale mixtures of normals

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 407-413

  Hamdan, Hasan ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Completely monotone; Discretize; Point masses; Recursive

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

COMPLETELY MONOTONE; DISCRETIZE; POINT MASSES; RECURSIVE;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644806987     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920500476390     Document Type: Article

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