On the risk of histograms for estimating decreasing densities

DOI10.1214/aos/1176350489zbMath0646.62033OpenAlexW1966698631MaRDI QIDQ1103991

Lucien Birgé

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176350489

zbMATH Keywords

histogramminimax riskadaptive proceduredecreasing densitiesunequal bin widths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Minimax procedures in statistical decision theory (62C20)

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