Trimmed comparison of distributions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 482, 2008, Pages 697-704

  Álvarez Esteban, Pedro César ^a   Del Barrio, Eustasio ^a   Cuesta Albertos, Juan Antonio ^b   Matrán, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Impartial trimming; Similarity; Trimmed distributions; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549083043     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000274     Document Type: Article

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