On nonparametric tests of positivity/monotonicity/convexity

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 498-527

  Juditsky, Anatoli ^a   Nemirovski, Arkadi ^b  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Estimation of nonsmooth functionals; Minimax risk; Nonparametric test; Tests of convexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036284993     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1021379863     Document Type: Article

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