The asymptotic minimax constant for sup-norm loss in nonparametric density estimation

Bernoulli

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1099-1118

  Korostelev, Alexander ^a,b   Nussbaum, Michael ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Exact constant; Optimal recovery; Uniform norm risk; White noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042112381     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318561     Document Type: Article

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