Empirical processes and applications: An overview

Bernoulli

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-28

  Giné, Evarist ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Donsker classes; Empirical process; Invariance principles; Metric entropy; Multidimensional medians; U process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002957273     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1193758786     Document Type: Article

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