Asymptotic global confidence regions in parametric shape estimation problems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1881-1895

  Ye, Jong Chul ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONFIDENCE REGION TECHNIQUES; CRAMER RAO BOUNDS; GEOMETRIC INTERFERENCES; LEVEL CROSSING STATISTICS; PARAMETRIC SHAPE ESTIMATORS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0034248656     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.857798     Document Type: Article

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