Extending Doob's consistency theorem to nonparametric densities

Bernoulli

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 651-663

  Lijoi, Antonio ^a   Prünster, Igor ^a   Walker, Stephen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consistency; Hellinger distance; Martingale; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944448839     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1093265634     Document Type: Article

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