Bandwidth selection: Classical or plug-in?

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 415-438

  Loader, Clive R ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Bandwidth; Cross validation; Density estimation; Local fitting; Local likelihood; Plug in

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033438066     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1018031201     Document Type: Article

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