Determination of the modes of a Multinomial distribution

Françoise Le Gall

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2003, vol. 62, issue 4, 325-333

Abstract: This paper presents an iterative algorithm for the computation of the mode(s) of a Multinomial distribution. A real multiplicative factor x is searched for so that the integer part of x times the probabilities of occurrence vector is a mode. We define bounds on x which can be used to compute the new mode(s) for variations on the parameters of the Multinomial distribution.

Keywords: Multinomial; distribution; Mode (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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