A robust heuristic estimator for the period of a poisson intensity function

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 441-462

  Bebbington, Mark ^a   Zittkis, Ričardas ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclic point process; Experimental evaluation; Nonparametric estimation; Periodogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844451216     PISSN: 13875841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MCAP.0000045090.84875.22     Document Type: Article

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