084004 (M10) Moments and generation functions for the absorption distribution and its negative binomial analogue : Newby M., City University, Statistical Research Paper nr 7 (september 1996)

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093019 (M10) Approximations for the absorption distribution and its negative binomial analogue : Newby M.J., Statistical Research Paper No 11, Department of Actuarial Science and Statistics, City University, UK, 1997

📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 92 KB

This paper introduces a new method to learn the probabilities defining a BBNs from databases with missing data. The intuition behind this method is close to the robust sensitivity analysis interpretation of probability; the method computes the extreme points of the set of possible distributions cons