Nonquadratic estimators of a quadratic functional

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2930-2956

  Tony Cai, T ^a,b   Low, Mark G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Besov balls; Gaussian sequence model; Information bound; Minimax estimation; Quadratic estimators; Quadratic functional

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644915542     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000147     Document Type: Article

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