Nonparametric estimation of composite functions1

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1360-1404

  Juditsky, Anatoli B ^a,b   Lepski, Oleg V ^a,c   Tsybakov, Alexandre B ^a,d,e  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CREST   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Composite functions; Local models; Minimax estimation; Multidimensional nonparametric estimation; Pointwise selection rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649090471     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS611     Document Type: Article

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