The least concave majorant of the empirical distribution function

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 317-328

  Carolan, Christopher A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Empirical distribution function; Least concave majorant; Monotone density

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036622673     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315954     Document Type: Article

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