Approximation of distributions by bounded sets

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae

Volumn 97, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 15-23

  Käärik, Meelis ^a   Pärna, Kalev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Approximation of distributions; Consistency; Discrepancy function; Fitting sets to distributions; k centres; Loss function; m estimation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

APPROXIMATION OF DISTRIBUTIONS; DISCREPANCY FUNCTIONS; FITTING SETS TO DISTRIBUTIONS; K-CENTRES; LOSS-FUNCTIONS; M-ESTIMATIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34248550822     PISSN: 01678019     EISSN: 15729036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10440-007-9140-z     Document Type: Article

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