Canonical estimation in a rare-events regime

2011 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1840-1847

  Ohannessian, Mesrob I ^a   Tan, Vincent Y F ^b   Dahleh, Munther A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES; CONSISTENT ESTIMATORS; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; GOOD-TURING; LARGE ALPHABETS; LARGE CLASS; MIXTURE MODEL; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY MEASURES; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

COMMUNICATION; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; PROBABILITY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84856094605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Allerton.2011.6120392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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