The bumpy road to the mode forest

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-251

  Minnotte, Michael C ^a   Marchette, David J ^b   Wegman, Edward J ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bump hunting; Graphical methods; Kernel density estimation; Multimodality; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032221052     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1998.10474773     Document Type: Article

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