On Tests for Global Maximum of the Log-Likelihood Function

DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.899537MaRDI QIDQ3548291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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