Adaptation on the space of finite signed measures

Mathematical Methods of Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-122

  Gine E ^a   Nickl, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive estimation; bounded Lipschitz metric; exponential inequality; kernel density estimator; L 1 loss; total variation loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856250332     PISSN: 10665307     EISSN: 19348045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3103/S1066530708020026     Document Type: Article

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