Exactly and almost compatible joint distributions for high-dimensional discrete conditional distributions

DOI10.1016/j.jmva.2017.03.005zbMath1362.62119OpenAlexW2602421298MaRDI QIDQ2397134

Kun-Lin Kuo, Chwan-Chin Song, Thomas Jyh-Ming Jiang

Publication date: 29 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2017.03.005

zbMATH Keywords

compatibilityincompatibilityfull conditional distributionsalmost compatible joint distributionirreducible block diagonal matrixrank one positive extension matrixstructural ratio matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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