Selecting the number of bins in a histogram: A decision theoretic approach

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-59

  He, Kun ^a   Meeden, Glen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Admissibility; Bayesian bootstrap; Histogram; Non informative Bayes and entropy; Stepwise Bayes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031591312     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00142-5     Document Type: Article

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