A Maximum Likelihood Method for Bidimensional Experimental Distributions and Its Application to the Galaxy Merger Fraction
The determination of the galaxy merger fraction of field galaxies using automatic morphological indices and photometric redshifts is affected by several biases if observational errors are not properly treated. Here, we correct these biases using maximum likelihood techniques. The method takes into account the observational errors to statistically
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