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Uniform-in-Bandwidth Functional Limit Laws for Multivariate Empirical Processes

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High Dimensional Probability VIII

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We provide uniform-in-bandwidth functional limit laws for multivariate local empirical processes. Statistical applications to kernel density estimation are given to motivate these results.

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Deheuvels, P. (2019). Uniform-in-Bandwidth Functional Limit Laws for Multivariate Empirical Processes. In: Gozlan, N., Latała, R., Lounici, K., Madiman, M. (eds) High Dimensional Probability VIII. Progress in Probability, vol 74. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26391-1_12

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