Quantifying uncertainty in the estimation of probability distributions

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 647-667

  Banks, H T ^a   Davis, Jimena L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation; Asymptotic standard error theory; Confidence bands; Parameter estimation; Probability distributions; Size structured populations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 58849137233     PISSN: 15471063     EISSN: 15510018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2008.5.647     Document Type: Article

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