Asymptotic analysis of isotonic estimation for grouped data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 107-117

  Zhang, Rong ^a   Kim, Jeankyung ^b   Woodroofe, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

62G07; 62G20; Asymptotic distribution; Brownian motion; Central limit theorem; Counts; Distance sampling; EM algorithm; Empirical process and maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042408224     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00301-3     Document Type: Article

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