1 INTRODUCTION

2 THE 'SEPARABILITY' ASSUMPTION AND STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK

3 CONSEQUENCES OF SPARSE SAMPLING
3.1 'Shot-noise' dominated sampling
3.2 Variation in mlim

4 EXPRESSIONS FOR THE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE OF OUR ESTIMATORS

5 IMPLEMENTATION
5.1 Establishing s/n Thresholds
5.2 Imposing the s/n Thresholds

6 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS