Relative efficiencies of kernel and local likelihood density estimators

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

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 537-547

  Hall, Peter ^a,b   Tao, Terence ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Global performance; High order methods; Integrated squared bias; Local linear estimator; Log polynomial; Mean squared error; Nonparametric curve estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036020895     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00349     Document Type: Article

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