Estimating the endpoint of a distribution in the presence of additive observation errors

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-49

  Goldenshluger, A ^a   Tsybakov, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Estimation of support of a probability density; Extreme value distribution; Optimal rates of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342603497     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2004.01.013     Document Type: Article

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