A new class of metric divergences on probability spaces and its applicability in statistics

DOI10.1007/BF02517812zbMath1052.62002OpenAlexW2063703901WikidataQ30051945 ScholiaQ30051945MaRDI QIDQ1881424

Igor Vajda, Ferdinand Österreicher

Publication date: 5 October 2004

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02517812

zbMATH Keywords

minimum distance estimatorsdissimilaritiesmetric divergences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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