Pointwise and sup-norm sharp adaptive estimation of functions on the Sobolev classes

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2420-2469

  Tsybakov, A B ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive nonparametric estimation; Exact constants; Gaussian white noise; Loss of efficiency under adaptation; Minimax risk; Sobolev class

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032243618     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691478     Document Type: Article

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