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Using the theory of random closed sets, we extend the statistical framework introduced by Schreiber(11) for inference based on set-valued observations from the case of finite sample spaces to compact metric spaces with continuous distributions.
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Feng, DJ., Feng, D. On a Statistical Framework for Estimation from Random Set Observations. Journal of Theoretical Probability 17, 85–110 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOTP.0000020476.12997.c2
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