Granulometric smoothing

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2273-2299

  Walther, Guenther ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excess mass; Granulometry; Highest posterior density regions; Level sets; Minimum volume sets; Mode; Multivariate confidence regions; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031316270     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1030741072     Document Type: Article

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