Laws of the iterated logarithm for the local u-statistic process

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 457-485

  Giné, Evarist ^a   Mason, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical process; Kernel density estimation; Law of iterated logarithm; U Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547176214     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: 15729230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10959-007-0067-0     Document Type: Article

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