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Above are papers related to the following paper: [Paper_ID] Paper #9581. 	[Title] DE-NOISING BY reconstruction f n is defined in the wavelet domain by translating all the [Abstract] p n. We prove two results about that estimator. [Smooth]: With high probability ^ f fl n is at least as smooth as f , in any of a wide variety of smoothness measures. [Adapt]: The estimator comes nearly as close in mean square to f as any measurable estimator can come, uniformly over balls in each of two broad scales of smoothness classes. These two properties are unprecedented in several ways. Our proof of these results develops new facts about abstract statistical inference and its connection with Acknowledgements. These results were described at the Symposium on Wavelet Theory, held in connection with the Shanks Lectures at Van-derbilt University, April 3-4 1992. The author would like to thank Professor L.L. Schumaker for hospitality at the conference, and R.A. DeVore, Iain Johnstone, Gerard Kerkyacharian, Bradley Lucier, A.S. Nemirovskii, Ingram Olkin, and Dominique Picard for interesting discussions and correspondence on related topics. The author is also at the University of California, Berkeley Please summarise all the given information.

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Paper #632935 has the title `Density and hazard rate estimation for right censored data using wavelet methods  
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Paper #632935 has the title `Density and hazard rate estimation for right censored data using wavelet methods  
` and the abstract `This paper describes a wavelet method for the estimation of density and hazard rate functions from randomly right censored data. We adopt a nonparametric approach in assuming that the density and hazard rate have no specific parametric form. The method is based on dividing the time axis into a dyadic number of intervals and then counting the number of events within each interval. The number of events and the survival function of the observations are then separately smoothed over time via linear wavelet smoothers, and then the hazard rate function estimators are obtained by taking the ratio. We prove that the estimators possess pointwise and global mean square consistency, obtain the best possible asymptotic MISE convergence rate and are also asymptotically normally distributed. We also describe simulation experiments that show these estimators are reasonably reliable in practice. The method is illustrated with two real examples. The first uses survival time data for patients with liver metastases from a colorectal primary tumour without other distant metastases. The second is concerned with times of unemployment for women and the wavelet estimate, through its flexibility, provides a new and interesting interpretation. 
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