On local U-statistic processes and the estimation of densities of functions of several sample variables

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1105-1145

  Giné, Evarist ^a   Mason, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central limit theorems; Empirical process; Kernel density estimation; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749110419     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053607000000154     Document Type: Article

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