Estimating the square root of a density via compactly supported wavelets

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 399-415

  Pinheiro, Aluisio ^a   Vidakovic, Brani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Thresholding; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DENSITY ESTIMATORS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 0031222253     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(97)00013-3     Document Type: Article

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