Confidence bands in density estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1122-1170

  Giné, Evarist ^a   Nickl, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Density estimation; Extremes; Gaussian processes; Kernel estimators; Limit theorem; Wavelet estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649285528     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS738     Document Type: Article

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