Exact and approximate Bayesian estimation of net counting rates

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 265-268

  Groer, P G ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IONIZING RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ARTIFACTS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0036028557     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006095     Document Type: Article

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