Data sharpening as a prelude to density estimation

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 941-947

  Choi, Edwin ^a   Hall, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Bias reduction; Kernel density estimation; Nadaraya watson estimator; Nonparametric density estimation; Orthogonal series; Ridge estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000020288     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.4.941     Document Type: Article

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