Approximation, metric entropy and small ball estimates for Gaussian measures

Annals of Probability

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1556-1578

  Li, Wenbo V ^a   Linde, Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximation number; Gaussian process; Metric entropy; Small deviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033164054     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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