New methods for bias correction at endpoints and boundaries

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1460-1479

  Hall, Peter ^a   Park, Byeong U ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bias estimation; Bootstrap; Curve estimation; Free disposal hull estimator; Frontier estimation; Kernel methods; Nonparametric density estimation; Productivity analysis; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036432738     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1035844983     Document Type: Article

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