Reexamining Discrete Approximations to Continuous Distributions

DOI10.1287/deca.1120.0260zbMath1357.62079OpenAlexW2162541740MaRDI QIDQ2960222

Robert K. Hammond, J. Eric Bickel

Publication date: 8 February 2017

Published in: Decision Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/daf771ab7eb37a80eb67249bf8b7f9edf49e64ea

zbMATH Keywords

subjective probabilitydecision analysisPearson distributionpracticeprobability discretizationSwanson-Megill

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Applications of statistics (62Pxx)

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