Approximating moments of continuous functions of random variables using Bernstein polynomials

DOI10.1016/j.stamet.2014.11.004zbMath1486.62093MaRDI QIDQ1731259

Xianqiang Yang

Publication date: 13 March 2019

Published in: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stamet.2014.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

uniform convergence; polynomial approximation; Jensen's inequality; delta method; Weierstrass approximation theorem; Tchebycheff polynomials; balanced and unbalanced data; heritability function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics

62G08: Nonparametric regression and quantile regression

62G07: Density estimation

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference