A Simple and Effective Discretization of a Continuous Random Variable

DOI10.1080/03610918.2015.1071389zbMath1348.62046OpenAlexW2499596250MaRDI QIDQ2828784

Dawit Zerom, Zvi Drezner

Publication date: 26 October 2016

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2015.1071389

zbMATH Keywords

optimizationdiscrete distributionhigher-order featurescontinuous distributionmean and variance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts (62P30) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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Uses Software

• R

Cites Work

• Discrete approximations to continuous density functions that are \(L_ 1\) optimal

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