A comparative simulation study of wavelet shrinkage estimators for Poisson counts

International Statistical Review

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-237

  Besbeas, Panagiotis ^a   De Feis, Italia ^b   Sapatinas, Theofanis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Gamma ray bursts; Monte Carlo experiments; Multiscale analysis; Nonparametric regression; Poisson processes; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142756370     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2004.tb00234.x     Document Type: Article

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