Kernel smoothing to improve bootstrap confidence intervals

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 821-838

  Polansky, Alan M ^a   Schucany, William R ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated bias correction; Bandwidth; Bootstrap t methods; Edgeworth expansion; Smooth function model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004829628     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00099     Document Type: Article

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