Optimal third root asymptotic bounds in the statistical estimation of thresholds

DOI10.1214/009053607000000325zbMath1126.62022arXiv0712.0894OpenAlexW1994545457MaRDI QIDQ2466687

Leila Mohammadi, Franz Merkl

Publication date: 16 January 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0894

zbMATH Keywords

entropy boundsclassification theoryestimation errornonparametric modelsthreshold-based classifiers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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