The iterative convex minorant algorithm for nonparametric estimation?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 310-321

  Jongbloed, Geurt ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global convergence; Interval censoring; Inverse problems; Isotonic regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032375434     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1998.10474778     Document Type: Article

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