An Empirical Process Approach to the Uniform Consistency of Kernel-Type Function Estimators

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-37

  Einmahl, Uwe ^b   Mason, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Empirical process; Estimators; Strongly consistent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034421301     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007769924157     Document Type: Article

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