Existence of extensions and product extensions for discrete probability distributions

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(88)90178-1zbMath0637.60021MaRDI QIDQ1098477

Francesco Mario Malvestuto

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

consistent systems of marginal distributionsexistence of joint distributionsmaximum entropy extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Probabilistic measure theory (60A10)

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