Consistency for the least squares estimator in nonparametric regression

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2513-2523

  Van De Geer, Sara ^a   Wegkamp, Marten ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consistency; Empirical process; Entropy; Glivenko cantelli classes; Least squares estimation; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030335134     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032181165     Document Type: Article

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