title: Particle sizes from sectional data.
abstract: We propose a new statistical method for obtaining information about particle size distributions from sectional data without specific assumptions about particle shape. The method utilizes recent advances in local stereology. We show how to estimate separately from sectional data the variance due to the local stereological estimation procedure and the variance due to the variability of particle sizes in the population. Methods for judging the difference between the distribution of estimated particle sizes and the distribution of true particle sizes are also provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Sokolovská 83, 186 75 Prague, Czech Republic. pawlas@karlin.mff.cuni.cz
authors.forename: Zbynek
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Pawlas
authors.forename: Jens R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Nyengaard
authors.forename: Eva B Vedel
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Jensen
mesh_terms: D015233:Models, Statistical; D010316:Particle Size; D016008:Statistical Distributions