Nonparametric estimation of multivariate convex-transformed densities

DOI10.1214/10-AOS840zbMath1204.62058arXiv0911.4151OpenAlexW3105994413WikidataQ42124558 ScholiaQ42124558MaRDI QIDQ620567

Jon A. Wellner, Arseni Seregin

Publication date: 19 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4151

zbMATH Keywords

consistencymode estimationmaximum likelihoodlower boundsunimodalnonparametric estimationshape constraintsstrongly unimodallog-concave density estimationqualitative assumptions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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Uses Software

• logcondens

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