Necessary and sufficient conditions for weak convergence of smoothed empirical processes

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 321-336

  Radulović, Dragan ^a   Wegkamp, Marten ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bracketing numbers; Empirical processes; Hellinger differentiability; Histogram estimators; Metric entropy; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037307503     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00395-4     Document Type: Article

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