Needles and straw in haystacks: Empirical BAYES estimates of possibly sparse sequences

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1594-1649

  Johnstone, Iain M ^a,b   Silverman, Bernard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Empirical Bayes; Sequence estimation; Sparsity; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543030265     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000030     Document Type: Article

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