Almost sure uniqueness of a global minimum without convexity

DOI10.1214/19-AOS1829zbMath1462.60049arXiv1803.02415MaRDI QIDQ2176635

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 5 May 2020

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02415

zbMATH Keywords

global optimizationnonconvex optimizationmixture modelthreshold regressionM-estimationweak identificationargmax theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Sample path properties (60G17)

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