The silhouette, concentration functions and ML-density estimation under order restrictions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1857-1877

  Polonik, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empirical processes; Excess mass; Grenander density estimator; Least concave majorant; Leve set estimation; Minimum volume sets; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032272797     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691360     Document Type: Article

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