Local extremes, runs, strings and multiresolution

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-65

  Davies, P L ^a   Kovac, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Local extremes; Low power peaks; Multiresolution analysis; Nonparametric regression; Outliers; Runs; Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035608644     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/996986501     Document Type: Article

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