Estimation in spin glasses: A first step

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1931-1946

  Chatterjee, Sourav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Estimation; Exponential families; Neural networks; Spin glass

Indexed keywords

EID: 50449103822     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053607000000109     Document Type: Article

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