Estimation of a convex function: Characterizations and asymptotic theory.

DOI10.1214/aos/1015345958zbMath1043.62027OpenAlexW2122818263MaRDI QIDQ1848920

Jon A. Wellner, Geurt Jongbloed, Piet Groeneboom

Publication date: 14 November 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1015345958

zbMATH Keywords

integrated Brownian motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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