Thinning and the law of small numbers

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1491-1495

  Harremoës, Peter ^a   Johnson, Oliver ^b   Kontoyiannis, Ioannis ^c  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION-THEORY; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LAW-OF-SMALL NUMBERS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CYBERNETICS; GAME THEORY; POISSON EQUATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 46749140150     PISSN: 21578101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIT.2007.4557433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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