Approximations to distributions of statistics used for testing hypotheses about the number of modes of a population

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 299-317

  Hall, Peter ^a,b   Wood, Andrew T A ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Bootstrap; Density estimation; Gaussian process; Hypothesis test; Kernel; Mode; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030575775     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(96)00072-9     Document Type: Article

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