The silhouette, concentration functions and ML-density estimation under order restrictions.

DOI10.1214/aos/1024691360zbMath1073.62523OpenAlexW2076085859MaRDI QIDQ1807149

Wolfgang Polonik

Publication date: 9 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1024691360

zbMATH Keywords

minimum volume setsleast concave majorantnonparametric maximum likelihood estimationEmpirical processesexcess masslevel set estimationGrenander density estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

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