Smallest nonparametric tolerance regions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1320-1343

  Di Bucchianico, Alessandro ^a   Einmahl, John H J ^b   Mushkudiani, Nino A ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Empirical process; Minimum volume set; Nonparametric tolerance region; Prediction region

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035470894     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1013203456     Document Type: Article

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