Ridgelets: Estimating with ridge functions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1561-1599

  Candès, Emmanuel J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Edges; Minimax decision theory; Nonparametric regression; Projection pursuit regression; Radon transform; Ridge functions; Ridgelets; Spatial inhomogeneities; Thresholding of ridgelet coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242679765     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1065705119     Document Type: Article

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