Estimating nonquadratic functionals of a density using Haar wavelets

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 485-507

  Kerkyacharian, Gérard ^a   Picard, Dominique ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Estimation of nonlinear functionals; Integral functionals of a density; Minimax estimation; U statistic; Wavelet estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030508979     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032894450     Document Type: Article

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