Optimal confidence bands for shape-restricted curves

Bernoulli

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-449

  Dümbgen, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Concave; Convex; Isotonic; Kernel estimator; Local smoothness; Minimax bounds; Multiscale testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042530624     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1065444812     Document Type: Article

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