On smooth estimation of survival and density functions

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-22

  Chaubey, Yogendra P ^a   Sen, Pranab K ^a  

^a NSERC of Canada research grant   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bahadur representation; density; exponential smoothing; Hille's Theorem; strong consistency; survival function

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025286863     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.1996.14.1.1     Document Type: Article

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