A minimaxity criterion in nonparametric regression based on large-deviations probabilities

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1075-1083

  Korostelev, Alexander ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exact asymptotics; Gaussian noise; Large deviations probabilities; Minimax risk; Nonparametric regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030514782     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032526957     Document Type: Article

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