Maximum likelihood estimation of smooth monotone and unimodal densities.

DOI10.1214/aos/1015952005zbMath1105.62332OpenAlexW1554640808MaRDI QIDQ1848808

Vincent N. La Riccia, Paul P. B. Eggermont

Publication date: 14 November 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1015952005

zbMATH Keywords

Maximum likelihood estimationcontractions\(L^1\) error boundsleast concave majorantsmonotone and unimodal densities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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