Classification of 2×2 sparse data sets with zero cells

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3212-3215

  Subbiah, M ^a   Srinivasan, M R ^b  

^a R M D ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

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EID: 56349122690     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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