A robust method for nonlinear parameter estimation illustrated on a toxicological model

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1677-1686

  Klepper, Olivier ^a   Bedaux, Jaques J M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Confidence intervals; Global optimization; Level sets; Nonlinear parameter estimation; Random search; Toxicological threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042632461     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00104-1     Document Type: Article

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