On consistency of kernel density estimators for randomly censored data: Rates holding uniformly over adaptive intervals

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 503-522

  Giné, Evarist ^a   Guillou, Armelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

60F15; 62G07; 62G20; 62G30; Censored data; Exponential inequalities; Kernel density estimators; Non parametric density estimation; Product limit estimator; Uniform almost sure rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042739507     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0246-0203(01)01081-0     Document Type: Article

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