Discrete Distribution

Known as: Discrete Distributions 
A statistical distribution whose elements may only assume discreet values.
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Minimax Estimation of Functionals of Discrete Distributions
We propose a general methodology for the construction and analysis of essentially minimax estimators for a wide class of… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Representational Power of Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Belief Networks
Deep belief networks (DBN) are generative neural network models with many layers of hidden explanatory factors, recently… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Distributions of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test statistics.
It is well established that test statistics and P-values derived from discrete data, such as genetic markers, are also discrete… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
An exact distribution-free test comparing two multivariate distributions based on adjacency
A new test is proposed comparing two multivariate distributions by using distances between observations. Unlike earlier tests… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
A Useful Distribution for Fitting Discrete Data: Revival of the COM-Poisson
  • Galit Shmueli, Robert H. Smith, Thomas P. Minka, Joseph B. Kadane, Sharad Borle, Peter Boatwright
  • 2003
A useful discrete distribution (the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson, or COM-Poisson) is revived and its statistical and probabilistic… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
On small-sample confidence intervals for parameters in discrete distributions.
The traditional definition of a confidence interval requires the coverage probability at any value of the parameter to be at… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Confidence curves and improved exact confidence intervals for discrete distributions
  • Helge Blaker
  • 2000
The author describes a method for improving standard “exact” confidence intervals in discrete distributions with respect to size… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Coalescents With Multiple Collisions
For each nite measure on [0; 1], a coalescent Markov process, with state space the compact set of all partitions of the set N of… (More)
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1993
1993
A triptych of discrete distributions related to the stable law
We derive useful distributional representations for three discrete laws: the discrete stable distribution of Steutel and Van Ham… (More)
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
A modified Bonferroni method for discrete data.
The Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons is a simple and useful method of controlling the overall false positive error… (More)
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