Adaptive orthogonal series density estimation for small samples

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 599-617

  Efromovich, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Density; MISE; Nonparametric; Orthogonal series; Small sample

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADAPTIVE NONNEGATIVE ORTHOGONAL SERIES ESTIMATORS; ASYMPTOTIC THEORY; MEAN INTEGRATED SQUARED ERROR;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

ORTHOGONAL SERIES; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030265485     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9473(96)00012-6     Document Type: Article

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