Asymmetric mixtures and catastrophes (Q1111210)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4076104
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Asymmetric mixtures and catastrophes
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4076104

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    Asymmetric mixtures and catastrophes (English)
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    1988
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    A mixture of two loss functions (with identical or different scale parameters) is proved to have the topology of the cusp catastrophe under certain conditions. The theorem is a generalisation of that proved earlier by \textit{J. Q. Smith} [Ph. D. thesis, Warwick Univ. (1981)].
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    loss functions
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    cusp catastrophe
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