Doubly smoothed EM algorithm for statistical inverse problems

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 461, 2003, Pages 178-190

  Szkutnik, Zbigniew ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Discretization effects; Quasi maximum likelihood estimator; Smoothing; Unfolding problem; Wicksell problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037361758     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214503388619201     Document Type: Article

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