Density estimation via hybrid splines

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 277-293

  Dias, Ronaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

B splines; Density estimation; Kullback Leibler distance; Logspline; Penalized loglikelihood; Smoothing parameter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032223158     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659808811893     Document Type: Article

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