The limit process of the difference between the empirical distribution function and its concave majorant

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1781-1786

  Kulikov, Vladimir N ^a   Lopuhaä, Hendrik P ^b  

^a EURANDOM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brownian motion with parabolic drift; Empirical distribution function; Isotonic estimation; Least concave majorant; Monotone density

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747172487     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2006.04.026     Document Type: Article

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