A note on uniform consistency of monotone function estimators

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 693-703

  Neumeyer, Natalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Function estimator; Kernel method; Monotonicity; Uniform convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947131133     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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