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Professor Petrosian is to be congratulated for an excellent exposition of the statistical problems and issues concerning the estimation of the luminosity function of flux-limited samples and for unifying the available methods.
Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Feigelson, E.D., Babu, G.J. (1992). Discussion by Michael G. Akritas. In: Feigelson, E.D., Babu, G.J. (eds) Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9290-3_20
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