A new smoothing-regularization approach for a maximum-likelihood estimation problem

DOI10.1007/BF01189476zbMath0801.90089MaRDI QIDQ1322715

Benar Fux Svaiter, Alfredo Noel Iusem

Publication date: 5 May 1994

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

positron emission tomography; statistical estimation; Kullback-Leibler information divergence; maximum-likelihood estimation problem; reglarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65K05: Numerical mathematical programming methods

90C25: Convex programming

90C90: Applications of mathematical programming

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