Uniform in bandwidth consistency of kernel-type function estimators

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1380-1403

  Einmahl, Uwe ^a   Mason, David M ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Kernel type function estimator; Uniform in bandwidth

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744481266     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000129     Document Type: Article

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