Statistics, handle with care: Detecting multiple model components with the likelihood ratio test

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 571, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 545-559

  Protassov, Rostislav ^a   Van Dyk, David A ^a   Connors, Alanna ^b   Kashyap, Vinay L ^c   Siemiginowska, Aneta ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUREKA SCIENTIFIC   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods; Statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038082258     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339856     Document Type: Article

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