Asymptotic normality of the Lk-error of the Grenander estimator

We investigate the limit behavior of the $L_k$-distance between a decreasing density $f$ and its nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator $\hat{f}_n$ for $k\geq1$. Due to the inconsistency of $\hat{f}_n$ at zero, the case $k=2.5$ turns out to be a kind of transition point. We extend asymptotic normality of the $L_1$-distance to the $L_k$-distance for $1\leq k 1$, we show that the $L_k$-distance between $f$ and $\hat{f}_n$ is asymptotically equivalent to the $L_k$-distance between $U_n$ and $g$.

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