Exact adaptive pointwise estimation on sobolev classes of densities

ESAIM - Probability and Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-31

  Butucea, Cristina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Exact asymptotics; Pointwise risk; Sharp adaptive estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858745362     PISSN: 12928100     EISSN: 12623318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/ps:2001100     Document Type: Article

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