The exact distribution of the maximum, minimum and the range of Multinomial/Dirichlet and Multivariate Hypergeometric frequencies

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 349-359

  Corrado, Charles J ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dirichlet multinomial; Multinomial maximum, minimum, range; Multinomial outliers, inliers; Multivariate hypergeometric; Stochastic matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958240900     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-010-9174-3     Document Type: Article

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