Minimum volume sets and generalized quantile processes

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-24

  Polonik, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bahadur Kiefer approximation; Empirical process theory; Generalized uniform empirical process; Level set estimation; Rates of convergence; Test for multimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031592717     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(97)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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