Motivated by problems of frontier estimation in productivity analysis, and boundary estimation in scatter-point image analysis, we consider polynomial-based estimators of the edge of a distribution. Our aim is to develop methods for correcting polynomial-type estimators of bias, and for...

We propose nonparametric methods for estimating the support curve of a bivariate density, when the density decreases at a rate which might vary along the curve. Attention is focused on cases where the rate of decrease is relatively fast, this being the most difficult setting. It demands the use...

This paper presents a simple method of calculating one-sided p-values which yield accurate inferences for a simple null hypothesis or, equivalently, accurate one-sided confidence limits regarding a scalar parameter in the presence of nuisance parameters. The method, which extends the work of...