Surprising optimal estimators for the area fraction

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 995-1001

  Schladitz, Katja ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

AREA FRACTION; COVERAGE FRACTION; GRENANDER THEOREM; JERSEN-GUNDERSEN PARADOX; MINIMUM VARIANCE; OPTIMAL ESTIMATORS; RANDOM CLOSED SET; SAMPLING DESIGN; UNLOOSED ESTIMATOR; WHISTLE THEOREM;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 85037967868     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800009575     Document Type: Article

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