On the calibration of silverman's test for multimodality

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 515-536

  Hall, Peter ^a   York, Matthew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Bootstrap; Density estimation; Kernel methods; Mode; Monte Carlo methods; Smoothing parameter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035595640     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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