A note on estimating a non-increasing density in the presence of selection bias

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 353-364

  El Barmi, Hammou ^a   Nelson, Paul I ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Density estimation; Hellinger distance; L1 norm; Non parametric maximum likelihood; Order restricted inference; Weighted distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036742566     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00263-X     Document Type: Article

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