Density estimation for biased data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1137-1161

  Efromovich, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation, average risk; Coefficient of difficulty; Nonparametric; Restricted minimax; Small sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344438920     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000300     Document Type: Article

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