A note on nonparametric estimation of linear functionals

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1140-1153

  Tony Cai, T ^a,b   Low, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias variance tradeoffs; Density estimation; Linear functionals; Modulus of continuity; Nonparametric functional estimation; Nonparametric regression; White noise model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141797642     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1059655908     Document Type: Article

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