Multiscale testing of qualitative hypotheses

DOI10.1214/AOS/996986504zbMath1029.62070OpenAlexW1972902995MaRDI QIDQ1848857

Lutz Dümbgen, Vladimir Spokoiny

Publication date: 14 November 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/996986504

zbMATH Keywords

monotonicityconcavitypositivityadaptivitymultiple tests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Markov processes: hypothesis testing (62M02)

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Uses Software

• SiZer

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