Minimax nonparametric hypothesis testing: The case of an inhomogeneous alternative

Bernoulli

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 333-358

  Lepski, Oleg V ^a   Spokoiny, Vladimir G ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Error probabilities; Minimax hypothesis testing; Nonparametric alternative; Pointwise adaptive estimation; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000365255     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318439     Document Type: Article

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