Extreme Points of Certain Sets of Probability Measures, with Applications

DOI10.1287/moor.8.1.74zbMath0509.60007OpenAlexW2147936548WikidataQ88199581 ScholiaQ88199581MaRDI QIDQ4747293

Alan F. Karr

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Mathematics of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.8.1.74

zbMATH Keywords

extreme pointsweakly compactTchebycheff systeminverse balayage problem for Markov chainsprobability measures with prescribed moments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

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