On visual distances in density estimation: The Hausdorff choice

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 333-341

  Cuevas, Antonio ^a   Fraiman, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Hausdorff metric; Kernel density estimators; L vy metric; Visual distances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032533050     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00133-3     Document Type: Article

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