On minimum divergence adaptation of discrete bivariate distributions to given marginals
This correspondence considers the class P of discrete bivariate distributions p with marginals a(p), b(p) and the subclass P-a,P-b subset of P of distributions with given marginals a and b. For an arbitrary q is an element of P we study the distributions (p) over tilde is an element of P-a,P-b minimizing on P-a,P-b various phi-divergences D-phi (p, q) for convex phi with finite phi(0).
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