Near optimal thresholding estimation of a poisson intensity on the real line

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 172-238

  Reynaud Bouret, Patricia ^a   Rivoirard, Vincent ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Calibration; Model selection; Oracle inequalities; Poisson process; Thresholding rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956285886     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-EJS319     Document Type: Article

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