On boundary estimation

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 340-354

  Cuevas, Antonio ^a   Rodríguez Casal, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boundary estimation; Expandable set; Hausdorff metric; Set estimation; Standard set

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY;

BOUNDARY ESTIMATION; EXPANDABLE SET; HAUSDORFF METRIC; SET ESTIMATION; STANDARD SET;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 3142766901     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1086957575     Document Type: Article

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