Stein's method and the laplace distribution

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 571-587

  Pike, John ^a   Ren, Haining ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric summation; Laplace distribution; Stein's method

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010858438     PISSN: 19800436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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