Asymptotic properties of Turing's formula in relative error

DOI10.1007/S10994-016-5620-6MaRDI QIDQ682383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Grabchak, Zhiyi Zhang

Publication date 2 February 2018

Published in Machine Learning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-016-5620-6

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalityconsistencyregular variationmissing massdistributions on alphabetsTuring's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Missing data (62D10)

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