Ignorable common information, null sets and Basu's First Theorem

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 674-698

  San Martín, Ernesto ^a   Mouchart, Michel ^b   Rolin, Jean Marie ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Common information; Conditional independence; Forbidden states; Measurable separability; Structural zeros

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751507918     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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