Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

Annals of Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1605-1646

  Giné, Evarist ^a   Nickl, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Law of the logarithm; Rates of convergence; Sup norm loss; Uniform central limit theorem; Wavelet density estimator; Wavelet thresholding

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849086811     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOP447     Document Type: Article

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