Sieved maximum likelihood estimation in Wicksell's problem and related deconvolution problems

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 161-183

  Jongbloed, Geurt ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biased sampling; Consistency; Convex minorant algorithm; EM; Isotonic estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529550     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00230     Document Type: Article

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