A Kiefer-Wolfowitz comparison theorem for Wicksell's problem

DOI10.1214/009053606000001604zbMath1209.62082arXivmath/0611088OpenAlexW3105517265MaRDI QIDQ2456011

Xiao Wang, Michael B. Woodroofe

Publication date: 17 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611088

zbMATH Keywords

empirical processesdark matterregression functionleast concave majorantisotonic estimationvelocity dispersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

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