Testing composite hypotheses, Hermite polynomials and optimal estimation of a nonsmooth functional

DOI10.1214/10-AOS849zbMath1277.62101arXiv1105.3039MaRDI QIDQ548545

Mark G. Low, T. Tony Cai

Publication date: 29 June 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3039

zbMATH Keywords

best polynomial approximationHermite polynomialminimax lower boundoptimal rate of convergencecomposite hypothesesnonsmooth functional\(\ell_1\) norm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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