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A special application of the truncation problem is presented in connection with constructing a model for the analysis of the fine aerosol spray particle size distribution sampled by an impact method. The relationship between the diameter distribution of images recorded on a photograph and the actual spherical particle diameter distribution is analyzed. The problem of estimating the parameters of the actual diameter distribution using the induced information is transformed to estimating the parameters of a truncated distribution with known or unknown truncation point. The derived general solution is implemented to two specified particle size distributions.
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Horálek, V., Beneš, V. On a special application of the truncation problem. Metrika 35, 63–76 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02613288
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02613288