A Haar-Fisz algorithm for poisson intensity estimation

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 621-638

  Fryzlewicz, Piotr ^a   Nason, Guy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cycle spinning; Denoising; Poisson process; Transform to Gaussian; Variance stabilizing transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344601732     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186004X2697     Document Type: Article

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