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Density estimation from an individual numerical sequence

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 نشر من قبل Gusztav Morvai
 تاريخ النشر 2007
  مجال البحث الهندسة المعلوماتية
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This paper considers estimation of a univariate density from an individual numerical sequence. It is assumed that (i) the limiting relative frequencies of the numerical sequence are governed by an unknown density, and (ii) there is a known upper bound for the variation of the density on an increasing sequence of intervals. A simple estimation scheme is proposed, and is shown to be $L_1$ consistent when (i) and (ii) apply. In addition it is shown that there is no consistent estimation scheme for the set of individual sequences satisfying only condition (i).



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