Asymptotic properties of Turing's formula in relative error

DOI10.1007/s10994-016-5620-6zbMath1440.62120OpenAlexW2744914785MaRDI QIDQ682383

Zhiyi Zhang, Michael Grabchak

Publication date: 2 February 2018

Published in: Machine Learning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-016-5620-6

zbMATH Keywords

consistencyasymptotic normalityregular variationmissing massdistributions on alphabetsTuring's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Missing data (62D10)

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