The problem of low counts in a signal plus noise model.

DOI10.1214/AOS/1015957470MaRDI QIDQ1848840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hsiuying Wang, Michael Woodroofe

Publication date 14 November 2002

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1015957470

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15)

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