Nonparametric testing of the existence of modes

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1646-1660

  Minnotte, Michael C ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bump hunting; Kernel density estimation; Mode estimation; Multi modality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031510027     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1031594735     Document Type: Article

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