Gietl, Christoph; Reffel, Fabian - In: Metrika 76 (2013) 6, pp. 783-798
The asymptotic behavior of the iterative proportional fitting procedure (IPF procedure) is analyzed comprehensively. Given a nonnegative matrix as well as row and column marginals the IPF procedure generates a sequence of matrices, called the IPF sequence, by alternately fitting rows and columns...