Uncertainty and the conditional variance

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 1764-1770

  Chen, Jiahua ^a   van Eeden, Constance ^a   Zidek, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information; Normal distribution; Uncertainty; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958460114     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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