Approximating the moments of marginals of high-dimensional distributions

Annals of Probability

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1591-1606

  Vershynin, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy tailed distributions; High dimensional distributions; Marginals; Random matrices; Statistical estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051608696     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOP589     Document Type: Article

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