Nonasymptotic universal smoothing factors, kernel complexity and Yatracos classes

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2626-2637

  Devroye, Luc ^a   Lugosi, Gábor ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotic optimality; Convergence; Density estimation; Kernel estimate; Minimum distance estimate; Smoothing factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031319763     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1030741088     Document Type: Article

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