On adaptive estimation of linear functionals

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2311-2343

  Cai, T Tony ^a,b   Low, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Between class modulus of continuity; Cost of adaptation; Linear functional; Ordered modulus of continuity; White noise model

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044431578     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000633     Document Type: Article

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