Rough-and-ready assessment of the degree and importance of smoothing in functional estimation

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-46

  Jones, M C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Density derivatives; Empirical distribution function; Kernel density estimation; Kernel functional estimation; Mean squared error; Smoothed bootstrapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034348939     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9574.00124     Document Type: Article

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