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This note gives invariantly optimal estimators for functions of probability densities, based on independent observations in a homogeneous space. The results are applied to the estimation of certain densities, derivatives of the density, densities of order statistics and of empirical means.
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Wertz, W. Über ein nichtparametrisches Schätzproblem. Metrika 26, 157–167 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01893484
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