Penalized maximum likelihood and semiparametric second-order efficiency

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-201

  Dalalyan, A S ^a   Golubev, G K ^a   Tsybakov, A B ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Estimating a shift of a nonparametric function; Exact minimax asymptotics; Penalized maximum likelihood; Second order efficiency; Semiparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744800008     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000895     Document Type: Article

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