Maximum likelihood estimation of a log-concave density and its distribution function: basic properties and uniform consistency

DOI10.3150/08-BEJ141zbMath1200.62030arXiv0709.0334WikidataQ61810959 ScholiaQ61810959MaRDI QIDQ605846

Kaspar Rufibach, Lutz Dümbgen

Publication date: 15 November 2010

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0334

zbMATH Keywords

exponential inequalityadaptivityhazard functionshape constraintsgap problembracketingmethod of caricatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02)

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