On Tests for Global Maximum of the Log-Likelihood Function

DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.899537zbMATH Open1323.94044OpenAlexW2170716113MaRDI QIDQ3548291FDOQ3548291

Authors: Doron Blatt, Alfred O. III Hero 

Publication date: 21 December 2008

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.2007.899537

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Information theory (general) (94A15)

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