Adaptive density estimation for directional data using needlets

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6 A, 2009, Pages 3362-3395

  Baldi, P ^a   Kerkyacharian, G ^b   Marinucci, D ^a   Picard, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Needlets; Spherical and directional data; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049098146     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS682     Document Type: Article

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