Some challenges for statistics

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-181

  Davison, A C ^a  

^a Inst Quant Electron and Photonics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Composite likelihood; Likelihood asymptotics; Metabolite profiling; Mixture model; Sparsity; Statistical education; Stochastic model; Wavelet regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449152774     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-007-0079-z     Document Type: Article

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