Asymptotic normality of a nonparametric estimator of sample coverage

DOI10.1214/08-AOS658zbMath1173.62015arXiv0908.3440MaRDI QIDQ834352

Zhiyi Zhang, Cun-Hui Zhang

Publication date: 19 August 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3440

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normality; sample coverage; Turing's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62F05: Asymptotic properties of parametric tests

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