Estimation of a function under shape restrictions. Applications to reliability

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1330-1356

  Reboul, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Data driven estimator; Hazard rate; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process; U shaped function; Unimodal function; Variable binwidth histogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744513170     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000138     Document Type: Article

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