Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for nonparametric density estimation

Biometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 329-341

  Chen, Song Xi ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bartlett correction; Confidence interval; Density estimation; Empirical likelihood; Kernel method; Percentile t bootstrap; Smoothing bandwidth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011373358     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.2.329     Document Type: Article

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