Asymptotically efficient estimation in the Wicksell problem

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2407-2419

  Golubev, G K ^a   Levit, B Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fractional derivatives; H lder classes; Kernel density estimators; Wicksell's problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032244484     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691477     Document Type: Article

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