Testing monotonicity of regression

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1054-1082

  Ghosal, Subhashis ^a   Sen, Arusharka ^b   Van Der Vaart, Aad W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Empirical process; Extreme values; Gaussian process; Monotone regression; Strong approximation; U process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034239194     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1015956707     Document Type: Article

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