Sharp adaptive estimation of linear functionals

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1567-1600

  Klemelä, Jussi ^a   Tsybakov, Alexandre B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive curve estimation; Bandwidth selection; Exact constants in nonparametric smoothing; Gaussian white noise; Kernel estimation; Minimax risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035528160     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1015345955     Document Type: Article

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