Almost sure classification of densities

DOI10.1080/10485250215323MaRDI QIDQ4806543zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luc Devroye, Gábor Lugosi

Publication date 3 July 2003

Published in Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/10485250215323

zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testingconvergenceminimax rateasymptotic optimalityminimum distance estimationkernel estimatesdiscernibilitytotal boundedness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

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