Estimating the joint distribution of independent categorical variables via model selection
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C. DUROT, E. LEBARBIER and A.-S. TOCQUET Laboratoire de mathématiques, Bât 425, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. E-mail: [email protected] Département MMIP, 16 rue Claude Bernard, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. E-mail: [email protected] Laboratoire Statistique et Génome, 523 place des Terrasses de l’Agora, F-91000 Evry, France. E-mail: [email protected]
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