Adaptive nonparametric confidence sets

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 229-253

  Robins, James ^a   Van Der Vaart, Aad ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Density estimation; Regression; Testing rate; White noise model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744826821     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000877     Document Type: Article

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