Wasserstein gradients for the temporal evolution of probability distributions

DOI10.1214/21-EJS1883zbMath1471.62296arXiv1809.03498MaRDI QIDQ2233565

Yaqing Chen, Hans-Georg Müller

Publication date: 11 October 2021

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03498

zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein metricdynamics of income distributionsevolution of human mortalitytime-varying density functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

Uses Software

• EMD

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