Chebyshev polynomials, moment matching, and optimal estimation of the unseen

DOI10.1214/17-AOS1665zbMath1418.62127arXiv1504.01227MaRDI QIDQ1731061

Pengkun Yang, Yihong Wu

Publication date: 6 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01227

zbMATH Keywords

polynomial approximationnonparametric inferencehigh-dimensional statisticslarge domainsupport size estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Minimax procedures in statistical decision theory (62C20) Approximation by polynomials (41A10)

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