Approximation by log-concave distributions, with applications to regression

DOI10.1214/10-AOS853zbMath1216.62023arXiv1002.3448OpenAlexW3100270455MaRDI QIDQ548533

Lutz Dümbgen, Dominic Schuhmacher, Richard J. Samworth

Publication date: 29 June 2011

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3448

zbMATH Keywords

projectionMallows distanceisotonic regressionconvex supportweak semicontinuity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Density estimation (62G07) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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Uses Software

• LogConcDEAD
• logcondens

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