Root n consistent density estimators for sums of independent random variables

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 925-935

  Schick, Anton ^a   Wefelmeyer, Wolfgang ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional central limit theorem; Kernel density estimator; Parametric convergence rate; Plug in estimator; Von Mises statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644288967     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250410001713990     Document Type: Article

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