On the estimation of a support curve of indeterminate sharpness

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 204-232

  Hall, Peter ^a,b   Nussbaum, Michael ^a,c   Stern, Steven E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Convergence rate; curve estimation; endpoint; order statistic; regular variation; support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031208941     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1997.1681     Document Type: Article

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