Informative barycentres in statistics

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 767-780

  Pelletier, Bruno ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Barycentre; Density estimation; Differentiable geometrical methods; Dual affine connections; Entropy; Statistical manifolds

Indexed keywords

BARYCENTRE; DIFFERENTIABLE-GEOMETRICAL METHODS; DUAL AFFINE CONNECTIONS; STATISTICAL MANIFOLDS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33845565704     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02915437     Document Type: Article

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