Quasi-concave density estimation

DOI10.1214/10-AOS814zbMath1200.62031arXiv1007.4013MaRDI QIDQ605936

Ivan Mizera, Roger W. Koenker

Publication date: 15 November 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4013

zbMATH Keywords

entropyconvex optimizationsemidefinite programmingdualitydensity estimationunimodalshape constraintsstrongly unimodal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Convex programming (90C25) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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Uses Software

• Mosek
• gss
• LogConcDEAD
• logcondens

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