Counting bumps

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 541-569

  Fraiman, Ricardo ^a,b   Meloche, Jean ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Confidence intervals; Density estimation; Downcrossings; Significant bumps

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002176622     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003958323950     Document Type: Article

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