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Methods also have been suggested for estimating the scale of the error distribution, but they require somewhat restrictive smoothness assumptions on the signal distribution, which can be difficult to verify in practice. We take a completely new approach to the problem, not requiring extra data of any type. We argue that data rarely come from a simple regular distribution, and that this can be exploited to estimate the signal distributions by using a simple procedure. Our method can be extended to other problems involving errors in variables, such as non-parametric regression estimation. 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