Estimation of the location of the maximum of a regression function using extreme order statistics

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-214

  Chen, Hung ^a   Huang, Mong Na Lo ^b   Huang, Wen Jang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Errors of measurement; Extreme value distribution; Global function optimization from noisy samples; Ranking selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030144391     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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