Adaptive hypothesis testing using wavelets

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2477-2498

  Spokoiny, V G ^a  

^a Weierstrafi Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive testing; Minimax hypothesis testing; Nonparametric alternative; Signal detection; Thresholding; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030342998     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032181163     Document Type: Article

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