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On starr and vardi's estimates of the number of transmission sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Peter Hall
Peter Hall*
Affiliation:
The Australian National University
*
∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, The Faculties, The Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600, Australia.
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Abstract

We propose an estimator for the number of sources, N, which transmit signals according to a Poisson process with a common rate μ. This estimation problem was originated by Starr and pursued by Vardi. Our procedure is a ‘double sampling’ one and has the advantage that it can be used when μ is unknown.

Keywords

DOUBLE SAMPLINGFINITE POPULATIONSPOISSON PROCESSTRANSMISSION SOURCES
Type
Research Paper
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 52 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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