Superefficiency in nonparametric function estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2607-2625

  Brown, Lawrence D ^a   Low, Mark G ^a   Zhao, Linda H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Nonparametric function estimation; Superefficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031322288     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1030741087     Document Type: Article

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