A general lower bound of minimax risk for absolute-error loss

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 545-558

  Chen, Jeesen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Hellinger distance; Hellinger modulus; Lower bound; Minimax risk; Unified estimation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031283655     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315347     Document Type: Article

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