Entropy estimate for high-dimensional monotonic functions

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1751-1764

  Gao, Fuchang ^a   Wellner, Jon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Block decreasing density; Bracketing entropy; Maximum likelihood estimator; Metric entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548833546     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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