Detection with the scan and the average likelihood ratio

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 409-428

  Chan, Hock Peng ^a   Walther, Guenther ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average likelihood ratio statistic; Fast algorithm; Optimal detection; Scan statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873652512     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5705/ss.2011.169     Document Type: Article

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