Quantifying uncertainty in the estimation of probability distributions

DOI10.3934/mbe.2008.5.647zbMath1160.35471WikidataQ44876608 ScholiaQ44876608MaRDI QIDQ1000260

Harvey Thomas Banks, Jimena L. Davis

Publication date: 5 February 2009

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2008.5.647

zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimation; approximation; probability distributions; confidence bands; size-structured populations; asymptotic standard error theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F25: Parametric tolerance and confidence regions

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

62G15: Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions

92D25: Population dynamics (general)

35L60: First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations

65M32: Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs