Maximum likelihood estimation of smooth monotone and unimodal densities

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 922-947

  Eggermont, P P B ^a   Lariccia, V N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractions; Least concave majorants; Maximum likelihood estimation; Monotone and unimodal densities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034362429     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1015952005     Document Type: Article

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