Estimating a unimodal distribution from interval-censored data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 475, 2006, Pages 1094-1106

  Dümbgen, Lutz ^a   Freitag Wolf, Sandra ^b   Jongbloed, Geurt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consistency: Iterative algorithm; Mixed case interval censoring; Newton method on subspaces; Permutation test; Shape restriction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748868846     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000000032     Document Type: Review

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