A bayesian model for local smoothing in kernel density estimation

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 299-309

  Brewer, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive kernel density estimation; Cross validation; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Variable bandwidth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008893178     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008925425102     Document Type: Article

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