Testing for multimodality

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 499-512

  Fischer, N I ^a   Mammen, E ^b   Marron, J S ^c  

^a CSIRO MATHEMATICAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Bump hunting; Density estimation; Kernel estimator; Modality

Indexed keywords

DENSITY ESTIMATION; MODALITY; MULTIMODALITY;

EID: 0028604722     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9473(94)90080-9     Document Type: Article

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