Bootstrapping nonparametric density estimators with empirically chosen bandwidths

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1443-1468

  Hall, Peter ^a   Kang, Kee Hoon ^a  

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Author keywords

Bootstrap methods; Confidence interval; Edgeworth expansion; Kernel methods; Nonparametric estimation; Plug in rules; Rate of convergence; Second order accuracy; Smoothing parameter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035470898     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1013203461     Document Type: Article

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