Some problems in adaptive estimation

Welsh, Alan Hepburn

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Some problems in adaptive estimation

Date

1984

Authors

Welsh, Alan Hepburn

Abstract

This thesis is concerned with the application of adaptive procedures to several statistical problems in which the unknown tail behaviour of the underlying distribution is of importance.