The Consistency of a Smoothed Minimum Distance Estimate

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 405-418

  Cao, Ricardo ^b   Devroye, Luc ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Convergence; Density estimation; Distance estimate; Kernel estimate; Smoothing factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030518398     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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