Entropy methods for univariate distributions in decision analysis

DOI10.1063/1.1570551MaRDI QIDQ5116332zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Abbas

Publication date 24 August 2020

Published in AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f83dbdb08eb56ccfbe9e82aa4cf8959136a07c50

zbMATH Keywords

decision analysisunivariate distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

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