The approximate distribution of the maximum of a smoothed poisson random field

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 167-180

  Rabinowitz, Daniel ^a   Siegmund, D ^a  

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Author keywords

Maximum of a random field; Poisson process; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031512240     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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