Bandwidth selection for local density estimators

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-232

  Hazelton, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Kernel density estimation; Mean squared error; Smoothed bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030557995     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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