Adaptive wavelet estimation: A block thresholding and oracle inequality approach

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 898-924

  Cai, T Tony ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Besov space; Block thresholding; James Stein estimator; Nonparametric regression; Oracle inequality; Spatial adaptivity; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033248624     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1018031262     Document Type: Article

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