Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints: Estimators, algorithms and asymptotics

Nonparametric Estimation Under Shape Constraints: Estimators, Algorithms and Asymptotics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-416

  Groeneboom, Piet ^a   Jongbloed, Geurt ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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