No empirical probability measure can converge in the total variation sense for all distributions

DOI10.1214/aos/1176347765zbMath0707.60026OpenAlexW2055288598WikidataQ101208116 ScholiaQ101208116MaRDI QIDQ919702

László Györfi, Luc P. Devroye

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176347765

zbMATH Keywords

empirical probability measuressingular continuous probability measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Distribution theory (60E99)

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