Quantifying the cost of simultaneous non-parametric approximation of several samples

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 747-780

  Davies, P L ^a   Kovac, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modality; Non parametric regression; Penalization; Regularization; Total variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80455141093     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-EJS298     Document Type: Article

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