ON nonparametric density estimation at the boundary

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-221

  Zhang, Shunpu ^a   Karunamuni, Rohana J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth variation; Boundary effects; Density estimation; Local polynomial smoothers; Optimal kernel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012800497     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250008832805     Document Type: Article

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