Asymptotic equivalence of density estimation and Gaussian white noise

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2399-2430

  Nussbaum, Michael ^a  

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

Author keywords

Asymptotic minimax risk; Curve estimation; Deficiency distance; Hungarian construction; Likelihood process; Nonparametric experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030328670     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032181160     Document Type: Article

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