On the degrees of freedom in shape-restricted regression

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1083-1104

  Meyer, Mary ^a   Woodroofe, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Bias reduction; Divergence; Effective dimension; Simulation; Stein's identity; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034237944     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1015956708     Document Type: Article

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