Shape constraints in economics and operations research

DOI10.1214/18-STS672zbMath1407.62424WikidataQ128872521 ScholiaQ128872521MaRDI QIDQ1730901

Publication date: 6 March 2019

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1543482057

zbMATH Keywords

reinforcement learning nonparametric regression production economics sequential revealed preferences approximate dynamic programming shape constraints consumer preferences multivariate convex regression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Sequential estimation (62L12)

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