Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation from samples with irrelevant data and verification bias

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 937-944

  Lambert, Diane ^a   Tierney, Luke ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental data; Identifiability; Nondetect

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744441966     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474048     Document Type: Article

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