On a statistical framework for estimation from random set observations

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-110

  Feng, De Jun ^a,b   Feng, Ding ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional distribution; Random sets; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043105645     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOTP.0000020476.12997.c2     Document Type: Article

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