High order data sharpening for density estimation

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 141-157

  Hall, Peter ^a   Minnotte, Michael C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Bias reduction; Kernel methods; Local polynomial methods; Mean squared error; Nonparametric curve estimation; Transformation methods; Wiggliness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036003422     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00329     Document Type: Article

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