Multiscale testing of qualitative hypotheses

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 124-152

  Dümbgen, Lutz ^a   Spokoiny, Vladimir G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Concavity; L vy's modulus of continuity; Monotonicity; Multiple test; Nonparametric; Positivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035592604     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/996986504     Document Type: Article

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