On the distance between cumulative sum diagram and its greatest convex minorant for unequally spaced design points

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 279-291

  Pal, Jayanta Kumar ^a   Woodroofe, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Greatest convex minorant; Hungarian representation; Marshall's lemma; Modulus of continuity; Monotone function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745322939     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00461.x     Document Type: Article

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