STATISTICAL CALIBRATION BETWEEN PARTIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Jianhui Huang (Canada)

Received October 23, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: additive white noise, Bayes factor, filter ratio, partial information system, statistical calibration.