Statistical functionals consistent with a weak relative majorization ordering: Applications to the mimimum divergence estimation

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages 666-675

  Lando, Tommaso ^a   Bertoli Barsotti, Lucio ^b  

^a VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convex function; Dissimilarity; Divergence measure; Estimation; Inequality; Majorization; Statistical functional

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; STATISTICS;

CONVEX FUNCTIONS; DISSIMILARITY; DIVERGENCE MEASURES; INEQUALITY; MAJORIZATION; STATISTICAL FUNCTIONAL;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84912575207     PISSN: 11092769     EISSN: 22242880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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