Stochastic Optimization and Statistical Inference

Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 10, Issue C, 2003, Pages 427-482

  Pflug, G Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

asymptotic statistics; asymptotic stochastic programs; Empirical program; entropic size; epiconvergence; risk functionals; statistical estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950497479     PISSN: 09270507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0507(03)10007-2     Document Type: Review

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