Quasi-universal bandwidth selection for kernel density estimators

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 409-420

  Wegkamp, Marten H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic optimality; Data splitting; Empirical processes; Kernel density estimators; Projection estimators; Universal bandwidth selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033445980     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315649     Document Type: Article

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