Methods for density estimation in thick-slice versions of wicksell's problem

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 450, 2000, Pages 535-546

  Feuerverger, Andrey ^a   Hall, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Binwidth; Frequency polygon; Histogram; Ill posed problem; Inverse problem; Kernel methods; Radius; Sphere; Stereology; Thick slice; Thin slice; Volterra equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542427456     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474230     Document Type: Article

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