Reducing bias in curve estimation by use of weights

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-86

  Hall, Peter ^a   Turlach, Berwin A ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abramson's method; Bandwidth; Bootstrap; Cross validation; Kernel density estimation; Nonparametric density estimation; Nonparametric regression; Variable kernel methods; Weighted bootstrap

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAP; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; VARIABLE KERNEL METHODS;

DATA REDUCTION;

BOOTSTRAPPING; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD;

EID: 0033611817     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(98)00081-4     Document Type: Article

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