A brief survey of bandwidth selection for density estimation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 433, 1996, Pages 401-407

  Jones, M C ^a   Marron, J S ^b   Sheather, S J ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Kernel density estimation; Nonparametric curve estimation; Smoothing parameter selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001050272     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476701     Document Type: Article

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