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Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods Volume 29, 2000 - Issue 11
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Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for artificially truncated absence data

Sally Mcclean Colum Devine School of Information and Software Engineering, Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Coleraine, BT52 ISA, Northern Ireland Phone: 44 1265 324602 Fax: 44 1265 324602 E-mail: [email protected] Road
Pages 2439-2457 | Received 01 Jul 1999, Published online: 23 Jul 2008

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