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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567582
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Book Information:

Author: B. L. S. Prakasa Rao
Title: Nonparametric functional estimation
Additional book information: Probability and Mathematical Statistics, A Series of Monographs and Textbooks, Academic Press, Orlando, Florida, 1983, xiv + 522 pp., $70.00. ISBN 0-12-564020-X.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: James R. Thompson
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 310-312
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1986-15453-4