Bias/Variance Decompositions for Likelihood-Based Estimators

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1425-1433

  Heskes, Tom ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0001691634     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017232     Document Type: Article

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