Identifying the closest symmetric distribution or density function

DOI10.1214/aos/1176350380zbMath0638.62025OpenAlexW2042532475MaRDI QIDQ1099525

Eugene F. Schuster

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176350380

zbMATH Keywords

Hellinger distanceminimum distanceempirical distributionsymmetric distributionclosenessbest location of symmetryclosest distributionsclosest symmetric densitiesintegrated square error normsymmetrical bootstrapunweighted sup-normweighted \(L_ p\) normweighted sup norm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric inference (62G99) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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