Mode testing in difficult cases

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1294-1315

  Cheng, Ming Yen ^a   Hall, Peter ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Bootstrap; Calibration; Curve estimation; Level accuracy; Local maximum; Shoulder; Smoothing; Turning point

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033236908     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1017938927     Document Type: Article

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