Estimating the distance to a monotone function

Random Structures and Algorithms

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 371-383

  Ailon, Nir ^a   Chazelle, Bernard ^a   Comandur, Seshadhri ^a   Liu, Ding ^a  

^a Princeton University

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Monotone functions; Property testing; Sublinear algorithms; Tolerant property testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948817828     PISSN: 10429832     EISSN: 10982418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rsa.20167     Document Type: Article

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