Zero-bias locally adaptive density estimators

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 441-460

  Sain, Stephan R ^a   Scott, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Cross validation; Variable bandwidth kernel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035995088     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00300     Document Type: Article

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