Random fuzzy sets: Why, when, how

Boletin de Estadistica e Investigacion Operativa

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-29

  Gil, María Ángeles ^a   Colubi, Ana ^a   Terán, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Functional data; Fuzzy statistics; Metric space; Random elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900793341     PISSN: 18893805     EISSN: 23871725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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