Nonparametric estimation of the hazard function under dependence conditions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2294-2331

  Estévez Pérez, Graciela ^a   Quintela del Río, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Bandwidth selection; Consistency; Cross validation; Kernel estimator; Mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001045185     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929008832423     Document Type: Article

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