Lower bounds for the asymptotic minimax risk with spherical data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 113-136

  Klemelä, Jussi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotic minimax risk; Density estimation; Directional data; Gaussian shift experiment; Local asymptotic normality; Weak convergence of experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037389296     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(01)00303-2     Document Type: Article

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