Discrete approximations of continuous probability distributions obtained by minimizing Cramér-von Mises-type distances

DOI10.1007/s00362-022-01356-2zbMath1527.62015OpenAlexW4296848154MaRDI QIDQ6089303

Alessandro Barbiero, Asmerilda Hitaj

Publication date: 17 November 2023

Published in: Statistical Papers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-022-01356-2

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationquantile functionmoment matchingcumulative distribution functionstatistical distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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