On the path density of a gradient field

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6 A, 2009, Pages 3236-3271

  Genovese, Christopher R ^a   Perone Pacifico, Marco ^b   Verdinelli, Isabella ^a,b   Wasserman, Larry ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Filaments; Gradient field; Nonparametric density estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949139758     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS671     Document Type: Article

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