The uniform convergence of nearest neighbor regression function estimators and their application in optimization

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  • Luc Devroye
چکیده

A class of nonparametric regression function estimates generalizing the nearest neighbor estimate of Cover [ 121 is presented. Under various noise conditions, it is shown that the estimates are strongly uniformly consistent. The uniform convergence of the estimates can be exploited to design a simple random search algorithm for the global minimization of the regression function.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IEEE Trans. Information Theory

دوره 24  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1978