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We present a fully nonparametric method to estimate the value function, via simulation, in the context of expected infinite-horizon discounted rewards for Markov chains. Estimating such value functions plays an important role in approximate…
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In this paper, we consider the alleviation of the boundary problem when the probability density function has bounded support. We apply Robbins-Monro's algorithm and Bernstein polynomials to construct a recursive density estimator. We study…
For the class of Gauss-Markov processes we study the problem of asymptotic equivalence of the nonparametric regression model with errors given by the increments of the process and the continuous time model, where a whole path of a sum of a…
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