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Testing convexity of a discrete distribution

Statistics Theory 2017-01-17 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Based on the convex least-squares estimator, we propose two different procedures for testing convexity of a probability mass function supported on N with an unknown finite support. The procedures are shown to be asymptotically calibrated.

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@article{arxiv.1701.04367,
  title  = {Testing convexity of a discrete distribution},
  author = {Fadoua Balabdaoui and Cécile Durot and François Koladjo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04367},
  year   = {2017}
}
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