Adaptive inference for the mean of a gaussian process in functional data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 531-558

  Bunea, Florentina ^a   Ivanescu, Andrada E ^b   Wegkamp, Marten H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive inference; Confidence balls; Functional data; Non parametric mean estimation; Oracle inequalities; Stochastic processes; Thresholded estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961039284     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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