Unified variance bounds and a stein-type identity

Probability and Statistical Models with Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 87-100

  Papadatos, N ^a   Papathanasiou, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Stein type identity; Transformation of random variables; Variance bounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962022819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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