Generalized maximum likelihood estimates for exponential families

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 213-246

  Csiszár, Imre ^a   Matúš, František ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Accessible face; Convex core; Exponential family; Kullback Leibler information divergence; Log convexity; Maximum likelihood; Partial mean; Variation distance closure

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849160079     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-007-0084-z     Document Type: Article

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