A nonparametric approach to the estimation of lengths and surface areas

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1031-1051

  Cuevas, Antonio ^a   Fraiman, Ricardo ^b   Rodríguez Casal, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Length estimation; Minkowski content; Nonparametric set estimation; Statistical image analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349094933     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001532     Document Type: Article

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