Neo-classical minimax problems, thresholding and adaptive function estimation

Bernoulli

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-62

  Donoho, David L ^a   Johnstone, Iain M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Minimax estimation; Weak pballs; pballs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037923112     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1193758789     Document Type: Article

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