Parameter estimation under ambiguity and contamination with the spurious model

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1221-1250

  Teresa Gallegos, María ^a   Ritter, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motif discovery in genetics; Outliers; Point estimation under ambiguity; Variant selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645915472     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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