The behavior of the npmle of a decreasing density near the boundaries of the support

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 742-768

  Kulikov, Vladimir N ^a,c   Lopuhaä, Hendrik P ^b,d  

^a Eurandom ^*  (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ING Group   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Estimating a monotone density at zero; Grenander estimator; Isotonic estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344444636     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000100     Document Type: Article

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