Multiscale inference about a density

DOI10.1214/07-AOS521zbMath1142.62336arXiv0706.3968OpenAlexW1976142330MaRDI QIDQ939663

Lutz Dümbgen, Guenther Walther

Publication date: 28 August 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3968

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticsexponential inequalityspacingssub-Gaussian tailsmodesmultiple testmonotone failure ratesubexponential increments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Testing in survival analysis and censored data (62N03)

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Uses Software

• ftnonpar
• SiZer

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