Semiparametric minimax rates

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1305-1321

  Robins, James ^a   Li, Lingling ^b   Van der Vaart, Aad ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hellinger affinity; Hellinger distance; Missing data; Mixtures; Nonlinear functional; Nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955139347     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-EJS479     Document Type: Article

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