Smoothed bootstrap confidence intervals with discrete data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 163-176

  Guerra, Rudy ^a   Polansky, Alan M ^b   Schucany, William R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Kernel estimates; Local linear regression; Sparse multinomials; Teratology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DENSITY ESTIMATION; DISCRETE DATA; KERNEL ESTIMATES; SMOOTHED BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; SPARSE MULTINOMIALS; TERATOLOGY;

DATA REDUCTION;

BOOTSTRAP PARADIGM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; SMOOTHING;

EID: 0031553370     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(97)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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