Optimal spatial adaptation to inhomogeneous smoothness: An approach based on kernel estimates with variable bandwidth selectors

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 929-947

  Lepski, O V ^a,b   Mammen, E ^c   Spokoiny, V G ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Russian Federation)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^e Weierstrafi Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bandwidth choice; Besov spaces; Kernel estimate; Minimax rate of convergence; Spatial adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031504935     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1069362731     Document Type: Article

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