Nonparametric estimation of multivariate convex-transformed densities

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3751-3781

  Seregin, Arseni ^a   Wellner, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Log concave density estimation; Lower bounds; Maximum likelihood; Mode estimation; Nonparametric estimation; Qualitative assumptions; Shape constraints; Strongly unimodal; Unimodal

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650124411     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOS840     Document Type: Article

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