A plug-in approach to support estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2300-2312

  Cuevas, Antonio ^a   Fraiman, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Hausdorff metric; Kernel density estimators; L1 approach; Multivariate spacings; Support estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031329212     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1030741073     Document Type: Article

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