Uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimator for $k$-monotone densities
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Abstract:
We prove uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimator for the class of $k-$monotone densities.References
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Additional Information
- Arseni Seregin
- Affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Box 354322, Seattle, Washington 98195-4322
- Email: arseni@stat.washington.edu
- Received by editor(s): December 20, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 2, 2010
- Published electronically: July 12, 2010
- Additional Notes: This research was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0804587
- Communicated by: Edward C. Waymire
- © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 4511-4515
- MSC (2000): Primary 62G07
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10496-3
- MathSciNet review: 2680075