On the minimax optimality of wavelet estimators with censored data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1138-1150

  Li, Linyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Besov spaces; Censored data; Density estimation; Minimax estimation; Nonlinear wavelet based estimator; Rates of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845221706     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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