Sharp adaptive estimation of quadratic functionals

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 539-564

  Klemelä, Jussi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive curve estimation; Exact constants in nonparametric smoothing; Minimax risk; Optimal recovery; Quadratic functionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044439119     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-005-0447-2     Document Type: Article

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