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Professor Petrosian is to be congratulated for this informative review of techniques for estimating the luminosity function. It certainly helped me (a statistician) obtain perspective on the problem.
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1027
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Feigelson, E.D., Babu, G.J. (1992). Discussion by Michael Woodroofe. 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_21
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